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Best Budget Motherboard/CPU (or overclock current q6600)

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I'm looking for the biggest bang for my buck, I'm in college atm and currently have around 200 and I will probably have around 450-500 to spend after I work all Christmas break. I currently have an EVGA 750i sli ftw motherboard (LGA 775) with a 2.4ghz Q6600 (which I planned on overclocking because I just bought an NZXT phantom case and an HDT-s1283 heatsink. Do you guys think I should save my money and overclock my q6600 to 3.0ghz+ or buy a new motherboard and cpu?

I'm looking for opinions and suggestions, if you have any hardware you recommended I would love to hear about it. I would also love to hear opinions as well.

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At this point, I would just overclock the still capable Q6600 and upgrade your CPU, MOBO & RAM after the new years with the release of the Sandy Bridge CPU's.

tecmo34 said:
At this point, I would just overclock the still capable Q6600 and upgrade your CPU, MOBO & RAM after the new years with the release of the Sandy Bridge CPU's.


Yeah, I think this would probably be the best idea. I have looked into getting the best for my money and I came up with $430 for these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

I also looked into intel i5's and i7's and the prices were just way out of my range atm, I also have a 750w psu, a 64gb ssd, an hd radeon 5770, a 1tb 7200 rpm hdd, and 4gb of ram, so I should be able to spend a good amount of money on a new mobo and cpu if i just wait.

Any other thoughts?
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