£800 build for gaming

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Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £218.98
Looking to move onto a better gaming rig (currently 4gb ddr2, q6600 stock, 521mb 4870)

What you think of the list below, any problems or better options/savings to be made?

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £121.89

G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C9 2000MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-16000CL9D-4GBRH) £86.99

Coolermaster Silent Pro Modular 700W Power Supply £84.99

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £81.99

Asus M4A785TD-V Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £72.99

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £65.99

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £42.99

Akasa AK-CC017 Freedom Tower CPU Cooler (Socket AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1156 / 1366) £28.99

LG GH22NS50 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - Retail £19.99
 
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £218.98
Looking to move onto a better gaming rig (currently 4gb ddr2, q6600 stock, 521mb 4870)

What you think of the list below, any problems or better options/savings to be made?

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £121.89

G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C9 2000MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-16000CL9D-4GBRH) £86.99

Coolermaster Silent Pro Modular 700W Power Supply £84.99

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £81.99

Asus M4A785TD-V Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £72.99

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £65.99

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £42.99

Akasa AK-CC017 Freedom Tower CPU Cooler (Socket AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1156 / 1366) £28.99

LG GH22NS50 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - Retail £19.99

I can't speak for the AMD processor, always used Intel but with a spec like that, I looks pretty good.

As for the cooler, I'd opt for the Titan Fenrir, which costs about an extra couple of pound, heard some great reviews with the i7, and the i7 gets pretty hot ! And I just checked, it has fittings for AM3 mobos too.

The antec 300 is a great gaming rig with plenty of cooling power, its neat and not over the top imo.

I would get two smalled f3s (320-500) and connect them in raid 0, be much faster and I've also heard about how loud the 1tb version can be, watch out.
 
I can't speak for the AMD processor, always used Intel but with a spec like that, I looks pretty good.

As for the cooler, I'd opt for the Titan Fenrir, which costs about an extra couple of pound, heard some great reviews with the i7, and the i7 gets pretty hot ! And I just checked, it has fittings for AM3 mobos too.

The antec 300 is a great gaming rig with plenty of cooling power, its neat and not over the top imo.

I would get two smalled f3s (320-500) and connect them in raid 0, be much faster and I've also heard about how loud the 1tb version can be, watch out.

Thanks for the input.

Looking at that cooler now and deffinately going for the antec 300. May just get a 500Gb on it's own as i've had one for years and no where near filled it up so i'm thinking a 1TB will be overkill when i can add it when needed!
 
Thanks for the input.

Looking at that cooler now and deffinately going for the antec 300. May just get a 500Gb on it's own as i've had one for years and no where near filled it up so i'm thinking a 1TB will be overkill when i can add it when needed!

Bigger is not always better mate, I bought one 500gb but wish I went to a 320gb x2 in raid 0. My mates have it, so much faster, its shocking for the low price !

Check out the reviews online.
 
Bigger is not always better mate, I bought one 500gb but wish I went to a 320gb x2 in raid 0. My mates have it, so much faster, its shocking for the low price !

Check out the reviews online.

Do they have them in overclockers?? Can't seem to locate them!
 

Brilliant, thank you

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £218.98

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £121.89

G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C9 2000MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-16000CL9D-4GBRH) £86.99

Coolermaster Silent Pro Modular 700W Power Supply £84.99

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £81.99

Asus M4A785TD-V Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £72.99

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £42.99

Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) £35.99

LG GH22NS50 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - Retail £19.99

Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/775/1156/1366) £19.99

Total : £836.59

Can someone just check that over to see if any more issues stand out? Or if i can save some money somewhere?
 
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