Don't get expensive RAM ($110 for 2x512MB is expensive). You can get good 2x512MB for about $140 most places, and hopefully you can go slightly over your budget for that (1GB is very useful when gaming and such). Besides, even if that 3000+ and DFI end up going far, you don't need expensive RAM to get good performance from your overclock (see Zebo's tests in the CPU/OC forum).