Help with new system purchase

[djtek7]

I am currently in the process of building my first overclocking system. I do not want to do "extreme" overclocking but would like to have a system flexible enough to play around with some. I have also decided to just implement air cooling.

Parts I already have include:
-Thermaltake Armor Jr. case
-Thermaltake 700W (24+8 pin) ToughPower PS
-SATA DVD burner

I am considering purchasing the following:
-Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 MB
-Intel E6600 CPU
-Zalman CNPS9500 CPU heatsink/fan
-2 GB RAM (not sure what make/speed I should get)
-eVGA 8800GTS video card
-2 320GB hard disks for either raid 0

Although I know that newer MBs are coming out shortly using NVidia's 680 chipset I like the idea of buying a little old motherboard with all the bugs worked out in the BIOS etc...

Also I'm not sure what type of RAM to get for overclocking purposes. I was leaning towards Corsair XMS2 DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) modules as they seem to have a lot more head room and I think the motherboard I have choosen above will work at those speeds, but I am very new to the overclocking world and I am not 100% sure.

Any thoughts/comments appreciated.

 

[engiNURD]

nForce 680i SLI has been out since december, and nF 650i SLI came out in january. What are your goals? because DDR2-1066 seems like some extreme overclocking to me, hehe. I'd drop down to the E6400 and a much less expensive board, like the Asus P5B-E, P5N-E SLI, or Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3... all of those boards can overclock very well. If you keep the ram on a 1:1 ratio with the CPU, then all you really need is any DDR2-800 at 1.8v and 5-5-5-15 timing (g.skill 2GBNQ). But if you want to push the ram higher, then get some sticks with micron ic's (Buffalo Firestix DDR2-800, Patriot DDR2-800 LLK, G.Skill 2GBHZ sticks, Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000, Corsair Dominator CL5D, etc). Or you could just not worry about overclocking the ram and stick with DDR2-1066 sticks, lol.