Final Spec check, ordering this week.

Foregot to mention already have Vista Home premium retail (waiting for 64bit cd arrive) and 2 x 1 GB of OCZ DRRII 6400 ram.

Read reviews that they have been failing after 6months to a year?? But then everyone seems to highly rate them on here
 
Do you already have an optical drive? Looks very good for the money though! Although I agree with Ging3r, get a Spinpoint. Same price, but 320GB storage.
 
yea sorry about that i ve got a

600W ocz stealthXstream Psu
windows vista home (waitning on 64bit disk from MS)
2 x 1 GB OCZ DRR II 6400

I have optical drives but 5 year old so IDE now is it worth spening £14 to a new sata one?
 
Most likely - they're so cheap and it helps with airflow and cable management. You might be better off putting it towards a bigger/second HDD though. 320 isn't that much if you go a while without formatting or decide you want your films on your HDD; and it's always good to have your data on a seperate drive to your windows install.

The PSU should be plenty, and you may aswell stick with your RAM unless you're going silly on overclocking (at which point 2 sticks of 2gb may be more apt) but for a mild-moderate overclock or stock speeds there's no point.

Looks good :-)
 
If your gaming, you won't really need too big a hdd, but unless you've got quite an extensive game library. But yes if you plan to store films get at least 500gb.
 
Just watch films through TV downstairs on HDTV and if i do i want put them onto hardrive.

Got a 160GB atm in my PC and thats at like 120GB had it for 5 years now so i think 320GB be enough.

I cant really afford to buy another Hard drive just for OS. If i got a bigger one is there something that allows you to put Vista on certain space on disk making it quick ??


What will i be expecting from this CPU overclock?
 
Only bad things about 4.5ghz (and you'd be very lucky to get this but it's do-able!) is you reduce the CPU's life from 10 years to around 3, you void the warranty, and you have to spend a bomb on a CPU cooler lol.

WDs are good, but apparently their support is shocking!!
 
3.6 is seen as about as far as you can get before it starts to get 'unhealthy' but the speed difference between 3.6 and 3.8 won't be too noticeable. However if you don't plan to keep that CPU for more than say 2 yrs, crank it up as far as you want!
 
Lynchy, good to see your updating :D

I would say def go for the biostar, i got mine the last week and its a dream to work with.
It is a world record overclocker (there is a little leaflet in the box about it).
The highest OC managed was with a E7200 where they managed to get a overclock of 127%!! And for the E8400 they took 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.
So yeah, cant go wrong with it ;)
 
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