e6850 overclocking/ram advice

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Hi,

Was initially gonna go for an I5/PHII upgrade but have decided to overclock my current system for the time being and wait for the next Intel/AMD architecture:

Currently:-

Vista 32
C2D E6850 @3ghz (333*9 stock speed, stock cooler)
P35 motherboard Asus P5KC
2gb 800mhz ram

Am gonna go for:-

Vista 64 bit
Titan Fenrir cooler
4gb ram corsair/Gskill/patriot....recommendations please?!

Now the question...Is it better to go for 1066 DDR2 ram or 1333 DDR3 ram? My mobo can handle both. In terms of overclocking is any better than the other?

Can anyone advise if my motherboard is a good overclocker? I realise im late to the party with C2D overclocking but any advice is appreciated!

Also would an e8400 be a better choice seeing as its 45nm? My motherboard supports penryn but perhaps it will be more overclock firendly with my current cpu?

Thanks in advance
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Review here:

http://www.bit-tech.net/custompc/reviews/125932/asus-p5kc.html

This motherboard is a combination of great and worrying. While the odd EIDE port and lack of PS/2 mouse support may put you off, the major issues are the performance hit in the multitasking test and the memory controller's dislike for high-frequency RAM. However, you may feel that memory overclocking is only the icing on the CPU-overclock cake, and that you can live without expensive performance RAM if you can add 1GHz to your CPU. The P5KC is capable of big overclocks, and with these applied, it matches boards that cost twice as much for speed.

The issue of the flaky memory controller is mitigated by the low price, and the type of product this is; you'll only buy this if you plan to upgrade to DDR3 next year, by which time it may have a more robust BIOS. More importantly, DDR3 will be cheaper and may deliver good performance at fairly low frequencies (we'd hope for 1,333MHz at least).

The main advantage of buying this board is that you needn't agonise over whether DDR3 is worth buying now - buy the P5KC and you won't have to replace it next year as you might do with a DDR2-only P35 board. It gives you peace of mind and resolves the memory dilemma. Best of all, it doesn't cost a fortune and overclocks well.

Crazy B
 
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