Antec True430 enough for OCed E7200 system?

[JuffoWup]

Sadly, a shipping company dropped my 3 year old computer during shipping, which ripped the video card out of its socket and destroyed my mobo. I guess it's a good time to salvage what I can and build a new one!

What I want:
A midrange gaming rig with a good price/performance ratio. I'm not afraid of overclocking, and am shooting for a system budget on the order of ~$1000 with peripherals.

What I have from my old comp:
Power supply: Antec True430 power supply
Storage: A couple Western Digital IDE hard drives
GPU: Possibly a Radeon HD3850 vidcard (okay so this isn't three years old because my old vidcard died. If this turns out broken I'll probably replace with a GT8800 or similar)
Optical storage: IDE DVD drive (may have to replace with a SATA)

What I'm thinking of getting (thanks modoheo for his thread)
CPU: Core 2 Duo E7200 (with some kind of aftermarket cooler)
Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX
RAM: 2x2gigs of DDR2 800


My questions:
I notice that new motherboards generally have only one IDE connector. I have a couple of old IDE hard drives I'd like to continue using at least at first. Will I get any performance benefit from switching to a new SATA drive? Am I going to need a new SATA optical drive since I won't have anywhere to plug in another IDE cable? Thankfully my PSU already has some SATA cables.

Regarding my PSU, will a 3-year old Antec True430 be able to run this rig with an OCed CPU? I hear that OCing E7200s to 3.8gHz is "effortless", will my PSU or anything else hold me back? What kind of HSF combo should I be looking at if I want to do this overclock?

Thanks a ton

Edit: I'm reading that the GA-EP35-DS3L mobo isn't good for overclocking since you can't tweak vcore? Any other good mobo suggestions?

 

[DSF]

Older Antec TruePower designs had a rash of capacitor problems that left the PSUs prone to going out with a bang. I would look into that before you reuse your old one. (I would strongly consider buying a new unit.)

Just because a drive is SATA doesn't mean it's faster than an IDE drive, but a new drive will be faster than your three year old ones without a doubt. I would be wary of reusing drives from a computer that was violently dropped anyway. If you do decide to use them, test them with the utilities from something like the Ultimate Boot CD before you install the OS. Yes, you'll need a SATA optical drive if you use your old hard drives.

Any good aftermarket heatsink should be fine for overclocking the E7200 as it's a fairly cool-running chip. The two most commonly recommended "budget" heatsinks are the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro and Xigmatek HDT-1283. Kingston has a heatsink that's identical to the Xigmatek for a few dollars cheaper, but I can't remember the model number. A word of caution though - 3.8GHz is a fairly high overclock and there are no guarantees. You may hit that speed or you may not. Passing 3 GHz should be pretty straightforward though.

About the motherboard - I believe that can be fixed with a BIOS update, but there's no reason to buy a board and then have to update the BIOS if you can buy one that works out of the box. The slightly older, but essentially equivalent GA-P35-DS3L would be one choice, but there are good options from DFI, ASUS and Abit as well.