Bit of help required with spec.

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So its been 4 years since I built my last pc and i feel i should be upgrading majority of it... I'm mainly going to be using it as a gaming machine..

Plan on using my existing antec 900 case powersupply and the existing Gfx card which i updated last year (Asus ATI Radeon HD 5850 DirectCU TOP 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card) possibly adding a 2nd card later.

CPU
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-360-IN

Motherboard
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-457-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990
or
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-051-AK&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

Memory
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-290-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

Cooler
Unsure yet but was looking at the Corsair H70.
Is Water cooling worth the money or will some high end air coolers just as good ??

Hard disk.
Finally do i look to get an SSD harddrive ?? does it make that much difference ???

Looking to spend around the £5-600 mark. Any help/advice would be appreciated..
 
Yip planning to get the msx memory. I'll do a bit of research on the cooler unit. Just wondered if there was greater benefits of water cooler over a decent air cooler.

PSU is a650w cooler master. I thought it should be ok for the job.
 
Great. So only thing now to think about is the hard drive. Got a smallish raptor hd ATM. But as the board will support Sata 3 do I go for a smallish SSD for os and games and then put the rest of the stuff on a larger standard hd?? Or will sata3 standard hd be good enough??
 
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