upgrade advice needed

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this is my current system

Intel Core 2 Duo E8600
Nvidia GTX295
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX
Asus P5Q Deluxe
Corsair HX 620W Psu
120gig Maxtor SATA
300gig Maxtor SATA

does this seem like it would be a decent upgrade to what i currently have?
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id also like to know if my psu would be ok with those parts and what the best air cooler would be for overclocking it?

i would also like to get the best motherboard for overclocking and i dont really know what i should be looking for :)

or would it just be better to go for this
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-030-OE&groupid=43&catid=339&subcat=1675
 
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Your psu is plenty powerfull enough.

Asus P6T has received excellent reviews and will easily take that CPU to 4ghz with little to none voltage increase.

Ideally i7 uses a triple channel memory kit. If funds are tight a dual channel kit as above will still work.

A decent cooler would be a titan fenrir.
 
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Hmmm, your current CPU will ease through most games and apps as it is now.

What do you use your computer for mainly? if it's just for games I wouldn't bother upgrading since that processor will hardly make any difference to you, the 8600 is still a beast - overclock that instead.
 
thanks for the replies, i mainly use it for games, photoshop and sometimes i do a bit of encoding too

ill have a look at some triple channel memory and do some research into the peformance difference between my current processor and that one :)
 
Well now that you say you do some encoding, and you have nvidias fastest current card.

Did you know a lot of adobe, cyberlink and many others can use CUDA, this means the rendering is done on your graphics card, a i7 doesn't stand a chance against your 295gtx.

Youtube clips and demonstrations are present to show this perfectly.
just search youtube for "nvidia adobe cs"
 
i think an i7 is overkill! unless you need the hyperthreading and triple channel memory and full 2 lanes of 16x PCI-E. go for an i5 and p55 if its just for games! or even try and find a cheap s775 quad if you want more processing power?
 
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