About to order- advice on this Spec:

[fishlick]

Hello, 1st post

Building for a music production PC so need power, ram and silence.
Don't need wifi/graphics etc so went for the P5K standard rather than deluxe but thinking about the P5K C (?)
May do a slight overclock but looking for stability over performance.

How are these specs looking:


Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
(£187.99)

Asus P5K Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£79.89)

2 x Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x1GB)
(£133.92)

Western Digital Raptor 36GB WD360ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM
(£66.96)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
(£54.04)

Asus GeForce EN7600GS Silent HTD 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express)
(£46.99)

Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Black)
(£82.24)

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)
(£68.14)

Scythe Ninja Plus Rev.B Heatpipe CPU Cooler
(£29.36)

Samsung SH-S203BEBN 20x20 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
(£19.96)

Total : £812.90 (VAT & Delivery)

 

[fishlick]

Why do you think it's better?
I did some reading and the "silent PC" crew rate the ninja

also, there's none in stock and no ETA!

 

[fishlick]

Thanks, overlooked that, would a sound card not be in order too then ?
If your going for 4gb of ram you may want to use 2gb sticks so you could potentially add to what you have in the future.

Something along the lines of this ?

Sorry, already have a soundcard - M Audio Audiophile 24/96 from previous system.

DavidB- Yeah changed for the P182, thanks for that.

Also you guys have confused me on the RAM issue. Do i only need PC5300 at 667mhz then?
I went for the P35 chip set and 1333FSB MB for upgradability, there could be affordable native quads in 12-18 months time, would it not be best to get higher spec RAM now?

 

[fishlick]

Too many people think "OMGZ Overclocking = BURN OUT!!!11111 and crashing!!!1111"

lol, that's me!

noob to overclocking, I did my first one the other day on E6400 to 2.8 on stock fan and it was idle at about 50C so i reset it all!

 

[fishlick]

Also the advantage of the raptor isnt significant enougth to really justify the additional cost, get 2 cheaper drives and run them in RAID 0 , itl give you more space and pretty similar performance, or get an additional storage drive and have it all running in raid.

do mean run 2 smaller drives in raid as the system drive?

it's about the same price (raptor) for 2 of these