Anything hugely wrong with this spec ?

[Tribune]

Hi all,

Long time lurker here. I'm treating myself this week to a new rig to replace my A64 4000 / x1800xt unit as it's beginning to show it's age.
I've put together the following spec after trawling through the forums here and I wonder if you'd be good enough to give it the once over. It'll be mainly used for gaming / watching dvds and a bit of running some file access software from work. I'd like to overclock a bit once I've read up more on it, and I don't really want to have to upgrade anything for 2 years if possible. The screen is to use with my current pc as a spare, usual one is a 22" widescreen Dell. With a speaker set, mouse and a new headset it comes in at a few quid shy of 1200.

Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Gun Metal Black)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-070-AN&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=160

Gigabyte GA_P35_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-088-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=913

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-157-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=793

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-005-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=823

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-058-GL

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 5000AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-120-WD

BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC2 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-043-BG

Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-001-SB&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music 7.1 Soundcard - OEM
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-043-CL&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat=

Asus VW192S 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-003-AS

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788)

 

[Plebo]

Have you considered the P35C_DS3R...it costs a couple of quid more and supports both DDR2 and DDR3. Upgrading to DDR3 is not something you'll be likely to do for ages, but it does increase your options when decent DDR3 drops in price.

It may be worth you reading up a bit on Vista and X-Fi compatability. With my P35C, older X-Fi card, 4GB and Vista Premium 64, I just got a load of fuzzy sound.
After reading about it, it would appear to be that the X-Fi, Vista and 4GB do not mix.....so if you plan on moving to 4GB you may have problems with your soundcard. I'm currently using the onboard sound until some new drivers are released by Creative.

I'm using the WD SE16 400GB SATA2 and it works fine..so you should have no problems with that.

 

[Alex UK]

Absolutely brilliant spec, only thing I will say is that you may want to have a look at the Crucial Ballistix RAM if you'll be overclocking. It should clock to 1000MHz+ and you don't really need to buy it in anymore than the PC2-5300 Variety. The GeIL is still very good of course.

 

[C64]

Maybe go for an akasa eclipse 62 case not a fan of the antecs
here.

 

[DavidB]

yeh i'd suggest the crucial ram too.

Case is down to preference, but i like the antec's looks so id stay stick with it.

Maybe upgrade to quad core if you feel like it, or downgrade to an E2140 and overclock it. I just think the mid-range processors arent quite as good value as the low range, or the cheap quad core.