First overclock/build project

[pizzawednesday7]

Hey, so i'm going to apologize up front for the fact there are probably a million threads like this and for being a noob i guess, but anyway. I have an 4 year old pentium 4 hp hanging around that i was running linux on not really doing a lot and i've been reading on building systems and overclocking lately and i've been really wanting to try it out. And i know you can't overclock stock computers, like hps or whatever. But i'm not going to dump a thousand dollars on some experiment and i don't really "need" the performance for anything anyway. So i was thinking about getting a new cpu, motherboard, heat sink, power supply and some ram to match. And just throw it in my old box and re use the cd drives and the case. I just bought a new hard drive for it and i bought a graphics card a little while ago. So is that do-able? That stuff won't care what it was made to run with will it? And if i can do that will it care if i use an AMD processor even though it was made for intel? i was thinking about

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3343343&csid=ITD&body=REVIEWS

it's pretty cheap and with the unlocked multiplyer it should be easy to oc for my first time right? And becuase it's oem i'm not wasting money on a stock cooler that i'll replace anyway. I'll have to buy a micro-atx motherboard becuase that's what's in there now, but even with budget parts the old 300W power supply isn't going to cut it right? Thanks for your input, Sorry.

 

[Outlander_04]

The amd chips are not great overclockers compared to the intel cpu's

How about something like
e5200
g45 motherboard like the ASUS P5Q-EM [ or even a g33/ g35 board ]
and 2 gig of Ram .

Since cases like the antec 300 are cheap and so are dvd writers it might be better to make an entire computer and reuse your monitor, keyboard etc