Quick upgrade check please

[Pho]

I'm about to do a 'budget' upgrade to my PC. I already have the rest of the components including a decent enough PSU (OCZ StealthXStream 600w).
I'm making the switch from AMD to Intel and as I haven't been following Intel for years I'm not sure what's decent. Through researching around the web I've come up with:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz 1333FSB Socket 775 4MB Retail
Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R
Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL4(4-4-4-12) E.P.P. (TWIN2X2048-6400C4)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Total: £255.12

I'm fairly sure I will be overclocking it, but probably not straight away so I may hold off on the Freezer 7. Other than that, is everything else ok?

Thanks

 

[Pho]

Ah ok - thanks for the suggestions. You both mention the E2180 - would that be able to reach a similar speed to the E6750 after being overclocked? At 660mhz behind at stock it seems that it will have a hard time catching up up .

I'm just slightly wary as my current processor is running at a higher mhz (AMD 3700 @2.5x Ghz)

 

[Pho]

That sounds very tempting then . My current case is a budget one (I've not got around to getting a Lian Li PC-7B or similar yet) but the motherboard runs pretty cool according to Everest - around 25'c.

Plus I'm sure the 10x multi will be better for loverclocking?

 

[Pho]

Not necessarily. Yes it will up your CPU clock speed quicker than an E6750, but it's the FSB that really matters. Technically to get it running faster than a stock E6750 you'd have to run it faster than 3.33Ghz because the 6750 has a FSB speed of 1333Mhz (quad pumped)

Oh ok. I'm not too sure what to do then. Would you say the E6750 worth the extra £60 based on how far it will overclock, or will the difference be negligible compared to an overclocked E2180?

I doubt I'll be upgrading for a good while either and I obviously want something which is better than what I have.

 

[Pho]

Exactly what I wanted to hear. thanks a lot .

I didn't realise it would get to 3.5Ghz - that's a very impressive clock.

 

[Pho]

Sounds like a pretty good plan . I'd much rather wait and buy them whey they're a decent price rather than pay through the roof.

 

[Pho]

Looking around it seems the GA-P35-DS3P is recommended too, I can't reallly find any reviews of the IP35 (I keep finding the -E or Pro version). There's about £10 in it so I wonder if it would be worth it?

 

[Pho]

As far as I know the only difference between the DS3R and the DS3P is that you can use the DS3P for crossfire (and I think it's also got one or two firewire ports as well). But I think the majority of people believe that unless you're a really hardcore gamer, it's not worth running two graphics cards at once because you never really get a massive performance increase and it's usually cheaper overall to just sell your old card and get a new one that works twice as well as your old one for not much more. And the thing is you can only use twin Ati cards in P35 motherboards anyway (I might be wrong though).

Ah ok. I had read that lots of people had problems with the DS3R so I was a bit wary. I don't really want Crossfire/SLI so that's not an issue.

I still can't see to find the differences between these though:
GA P35C DS3R
GA-P35-DS3R

edit: Ah! http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10574797&postcount=7

 

[Pho]

I guess it's worth a risk then.

The only problem now is I'll have to take out a CD-RW/hard disk as it only has 1 IDE connector (I have two IDE hard disk's and one SATA as well as IDE CD/DVD drives) .