Budget upgrade components

[Dutch Guy]

In the next month I will get a tax refund so I thought about upgrading my X2 system to something more newer but it also has to be a budget minded upgrade as I don’t use the PC that often, I will be overclocking with watercooling.

These are the components I thought would be good:

Mobo: Abit IP35-E
CPU: Intel E7200
Memory: OCZ 2GB DDR2-800 Platinum2 4-4-4-15

But I have a few (a lot of) questions:
1) Is there a possible incompatibility with my old Enermax 485W PSU?
2) Should I spend a little more and get DDR1066? (or is 1:1 overclocking stable)
3) Is the mobo capable of running 400Mhz FSB or higher?
4) Is the E7200 a good overclocker or should I spend a little more and get a E8400?
5) Any other alternatives you suggest?

 

[Dutch Guy]

get the abit IP35 if you intend to overclock, it's meant to be much better than the -E for overclocking.

I was thinking about that, but what annoys me is that the non E version has a heatpipe cooler and I wanted to change the northbridge cooler to a Thermalright HR05 SLI I have and with the heatpipe cooler I can't do that.

I also looked at the Asus P5K but it is 25 euro more than the Abit IP35-E and has the ATX connector in a crap place.

 

[Dutch Guy]

With the current low memory prices I also think about getting 4GB of memory but would I get a problem getting it to run with XP Pro and Vista x86 32bit?

 

[Dutch Guy]

with the prices would be silly not to, i'm running 4gb without any issues.

But I think I have read that the OS can only use 3GB, wouldn't it give an issue when you have 4GB or will the 4th GB just be unused?

 

[Dutch Guy]

Have you considered the OcUK value board i suggested, or does it not have the features you need?

I don't live in the UK but on the other side of the North Sea so the value of the value board isn't really for me as the shipping cost will be higher than when I order locally but it does look good.