OC'ing Build for $500?

[commandercup]

As you guys may know... I'm going to try and sell my rig for ~999 on ebay...

If it does sell for somewhere around there, I'll be buying a totally new system with the idea of having it phase cooled...

I'll be buying a pretty cheap phase cooling setup since I can't afford anything crazy... thus it'll rack me probably around ~500 which is already half of my original PC price...

So... I'll need some great overclocking stuff for ~500!

That includes everything! I'll have nothing left once my PC sells... no hard drive... no optical drive... no motherboard... no case etc.

I don't plan to use SLI... I don't want only DDR3... I want standard ATX... I need a DVD capable optical drive... I only need ~250 maybe ~320 GB of space... I'll be running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004

 

[veg1992]

e2180
DFI Lanparty DK p35 (huge selling point there )
hd3850/8800gs
Corsair 450vx (its enough)
Crucial Ballistix 2gb ddr2 667 kit (with its low timings it should be an easy OC)
choose HD, optical drive, case

 

[commandercup]

i agree with mostly everything, but I want a hiper PSU

and... 8800 GS or 9600 GT?

 

[veg1992]

9600gt outperforms 8800gs, and the 9600gt = hd3870

also the Hiper Type-R 580w is fine too

 

[commandercup]

nvidia > ati

lol xD

I'll get the 9600 gt then

the e2180 is great also, as is the mobo

so pretty much everything is set, it seems a bit over 500 (more like 600 or 700 lol)

I might dump my phase idea and get a quad...