i've got a budget of $1000 or less for a cpu i want to OC, i don't need a HDD or GPU so far this is what i've found, please comment or give alternate options. also you may notice that there are multiple cases ect. in this list, this is only cuz i have yet to decide between them. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121059 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106057 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139001 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171016 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119077 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119068 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145034
Get a P35 (ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI) motherboard, they are good for overclocking. The 975X is old and outdated and not worth $215. The corsair power supply can be obtained from buy.com for $30 cheaper. The q6600 will only go as high as 3.2GHz when overclocking on air I believe, but once again why overclock when you can run all your programs just fine at stock speed. (The q6600 comes in two flavors an older B3 stepping model and the newer G0 stepping model which is from what i heard a better overclocker.) I know Clubit.com ($266) and tankguys.com have those. From newegg a G0 model is not guaranteed. If you are going to overclock make sure you get a good CPU cooler because the stock cooler sucks. Zalmans are good.
There's nothing explicitly wrong with 975X, it produced the Asus P5W-DH Deluxe, a great overclocking board, but Intel's own boards are pretty suck at overclocking. The Corsair HX 520W is the far better power supply of the two, so go with that one. Go with this motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128047&Tpk=Gigabyte+P35-DS3P The rest looks good.
Yea there is nothing wrong with the 975X exept for the fact the southbridge is two generations old and that benchmarking has shown that the P35 is faster.
