First build spec-check

Meerkat

Meerkat

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Right, this is going to be my first build of a PC, just need to know if everything will work and if you lot can suggest any alternative hardware.

Hardware:
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.53GHz (1066FSB) £88.11
HIS ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI £111.61
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Black Dragon DDR2 Dual £29.36
Asus P5K Pro Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £82.24
Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £36.41
Samsung SH-S223F/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter - OEM £15.26
Antec TruePower Trio 650W PSU £82.24
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 Sound Card - OEM (PCI-e) £27.01
Asus Silent Knight AL CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £32.89

Software/Case, etc.
NZXT Alpha Classic Series Silent Midi-Tower Case £46.99
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £4.69
Netgear WG311T 108Mbps Wireless Desktop PCI Network Adapter
Logitech G5 Gaming-Grade Laser Mouse £41.11
Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit OEM £74.01
Norton Anti-Virus 360 All-in-One £27.01
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Total £756.45 inc VAT and shipping
 
can i suggest you do some research on virus cheackers before you buy norton, mainly cause its crap. something like kaspersky or AVG are suppose to be much much better. Oh and norton interfers with everything

apart from that everything looks good

ohh and your missing a keyboard and monitor!!
 
Yeh Norton is rubbish, check out BitDefender. I would suggest you upgrade to 4GB ram aswell since its cheap, change vista to 64 bit. Also see if you can stretch to a P45 board.
 
Edward01 said:
can i suggest you do some research on virus cheackers before you buy norton, mainly cause its crap. something like kaspersky or AVG are suppose to be much much better. Oh and norton interfers with everything

apart from that everything looks good

ohh and your missing a keyboard and monitor!!
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Already got a Keyboard, and I can use my HDTV as a monitor due to it being 26"

EDIT:
Changed the Mobo, the RAM and the Anti-Virus to:
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz Black Dragon DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
BitDefender Antivirus 2008 - Retail
and changed the OS to 64bit
 
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norton antivirus 360 come free with my laptop and to be honest i used to be like everyone else saying norton is rubish etc.

but the 360 (thin it is v2) was actually ok. does quite a lot in the background but still moderately light on memory, unlike the old versions.

But having said that i still uninstalled it and used a spare licence of AVG as it was even lighter.
 
some people have been having problems with the samsung writers, check out the optical drive forum
might want to swap it
 
Definitely get Vista 64, even if you only get 2gb of RAM (although I would def recommend getting 4gb). This will give you more flexibility in the future.

Will you be overclocking?
 
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