Another noobish question

Vidar · 18 Apr 2009 at 02:25

Okay so it has been a while since ive built a system having built a couple in the past without having such a wide a knowledgable community at my disposal. I dont want to miss anything silly like I did last time, such as drive mounts for my old Thermaltake Xaser 3 case which put me back about a week as i couldnt get out of work... Could you guys please check my list and recommend anything I might have overlooked. Okay and please dont mention a Case im picking up my Coolermaster Cosmos S on Monday seperatley. Also have pleanty of cable ties.

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail

Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Corsair HX 620W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-620HXUK)

Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM

Asus Silent Knight AL CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)

OCZ Gold Edition 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 Dual Channel

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)

setter · 18 Apr 2009 at 02:31

Looks pretty good, E8400 will overclock pretty well on the p5q pro (if your into overclocking) good choice of parts mate, good luck with your build.

Vidar · 18 Apr 2009 at 02:35

Thanks Setter, all the parts have come from advice from other members and is a far cry from what the original list was...

I would just like to thank all of you for all your help so far, its really been appreciated and has kept me from doing something daft like heading to PC World! lol

setter · 18 Apr 2009 at 02:44

Naah mate, never go to them shops, they charge to much for basic components, and even more to fit them, im pretty new to building computers myself, but the satisfaction of buying your own parts, and then putting that machine together, is immense, then when you start overclocking, thats a whole new ball game, but a very enjoyable game

Vidar · 18 Apr 2009 at 02:50

Yeah I felt like a kid when they delivered all my stuff for my first build 6 years ago... the size of the ******* box had me beaming! lol

setter · 18 Apr 2009 at 03:06

My first build was an athlon s939 sli set up, i knew sod all about building pc's (used to be a console gamer) the actual building process was great fun, and very educational, my mates are all xbox 360 gamers, not my scene, you cant get 48 players in a game of cod4 on the xbox, i run a q6600 @3.6ghz (capable of 3.8ghz) with a gtx 280 vid card, great gaming machine.

Vidar · 18 Apr 2009 at 12:32

I was always a PC gamer, much prefered the complex strategy games like Medieval Total War and the ultimate shooters like Half life 1 & 2 not to mention mmo's like Star Wars Galaxies, Until SOE and Lucas Arts slaughtered it. I only appreciated consoles when my girlfriend bought me a PS3 but at my core im always gonna be a PC gamer.

Vidar · 18 Apr 2009 at 12:35

My first build was an Athlon 3000, on an A-bit NF7-S mobo and I loved it, seemed to blow the socks off of everyone elses machine for about 2 years.