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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme Heatsink (Socket AM2/LGA775)
Noctua NF-S12 1200RPM 120mm Silent Case Fan - 3 Pin
Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-6400C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 5000AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional 7.1 Soundcard - Retail
Asus DRW-1814BLT 18x18 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - Retail
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
Akasa Eclipse 62 Aluminium Case - No PSU
Total : £1,349.88
Ok, you should be able to overclock the Quad to 3GHZ+ and with good temps. Dont worry about if you havent ovclocked before, its fairly stright forward, just read a few guides before hand. Their are also people on here that are willing to help you if you get stuck.
The Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme Heatsink is one of the best air coolers around and at the price that it is going for now, it is a steel. Since it dosent come with a fan i have just added the Noctua NF-S12 which will do the job perfectly.
The Abit IP35 Pro is a fantastic P35 chipset board, very reliable, solid and great overclocking potinal. It also fully supports Intels upcoming 45nm processors (Penryn).
The G.Skill 4GB DDR2 is very reliable memory and you wont have any problems with it.
The 8800GTX is a fantastic card, very powerful and pretty quite too. No need to go for SLI since many games out their are not optimized for a SLI configuration.
The Western Digital Hard Drives are very reliable and quite. Raptors are a waste of money to be honest. When they first came out they were quite a head of the standard 7200RPM drives. Now that the standard 7200RPM drives have advanced they are not far behind the Raptors.
If your spending that amount of money a Soundcard is a must. The diffrence between hearing sound from the onboard sound controller and a deicated sound card is huge. So the Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional 7.1 will be fantastic.
The ASUS DVD Drive connectos to your motherboard via SATA connection, this means you can cancel the onboard IDE controllerwhich will help with boot times. Also you can get rid of them ugly IDE cables.
The Corsair PSU is one of the best power supplys around, very reliable and very quite.
The Akasa case is amazing, brilliant build quality and cooling is of a very high standard too.
Now i have also added Vista Home Premium for you, i know that you may not want to move to Vista now but i highly recomend dual booting along with XP, its a great way to experinace Vista fully but if you do come across any problems you can still use XP. You will also be able to ultlize all 4GB of Memory that i have put in for you.
and also have new requirements.
