Your setup is fine and obviously can be easily overclocked. As of how far you can go, that would depend on the capability of your CPU and RAM (primarily).

knowledge first... you must know about the risk of overclocking...

That's not very true. People would normally want their OS drive to be fast so everything is a lot snappier and it's for the same reason why people buy Raptor drives when SSD hasn't existed. If there is a cheap and good method to store the whole OS in RAM permanently without losing data when you power off, many people would be doing that as well. You're paying the money for the speed which SSD's can offer, not the space. A typical setup is to have the SSD storing your OS, programs, etc and all other things in a conventional 1TB drives as storage/backup.

If you have not tried a properly configured SSD system, it would be very difficult for you to understand how good/fast is the SSD. You need to understand that the current bottleneck in most modern computers are I/O devices, not your CPU, RAM or board. By having an SSD, you are actually closing the "bottleneck" gap. For example in my PC, I can start Office applications in 1 second, Photoshop 64 in 3-4 seconds, boots up Windows in less than 15 secs. Far Cry 2 game loading is also easily 50% faster compared to my previous Raptor RAID-0 setup.
Before that, what is the problem you are having?

at last the old-timer oc'er have share his old knowledge and his passion..

to TS, you can choose which best for your setup, either the pc is for working or just for fun gaming...

i think better you spend on SSD instead of expensive high timings RAM (which gives better result for overclocking ofor benchmarking~), if you see 80GB is too expensive, you can always go for the other smaller capacity, 30GB, 60GB SSD instead. i think it should be enough to store an OS, while for program and gaming you can put inside the primary HDD which has a larger capacity. Eventhough the smaller 30GB - 60GB is not as fast as the 80GB intel SSD, but still you can feel the difference when you're done correctly on the setting. If you have more budget to go to 80GB SSD, i personally recommend you to pickup the 30GB X2 or 60GB x 2 SSD which is set to RAID0, which seem a faster than a single 80GB SSD itself

depends on your cooling system and your motherboard plays too... anyway.. try oc your system little bit first.. then.. look at the temp reading..

with more efficient cooling system.. you will get more oced result... and about cpu cooler.. you don't have to see at hyper 212.. but you can look at CM N520 or CM V8 or V10.. you case still can support it... and you also can add more fan into your casing for more cooling performance...

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Added on February 23, 2010, 5:48 pmfan..

what brand..?? try to get a big size fan with low rpm.. it will make your pc more cool and silent...