I was wondering if you could check out this spec for me?

[Aloreth]

Hey guys! I'm not sure if anyone has been following my pain but my old pc recently packed up so i figured what better way of blowing my bonus than on another one? I must admit I was a lot more up to date the last time I bought a PC, would you min having a look at what iv got here and either giving me a thumbs up or perhaps a few ideas?

Anyway here is what iv got at the moment:

Akasa Eclipse 62 Aluminium Case - No PSU £79.99
(£93.99)

Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme (Socket AM2/LGA775) Heatsink £31.99
(£37.59)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB ST3750640AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - Retail £114.99
(£135.11)

Samsung SH-S203BEBN 20x20 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
(£23.49)

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 "LGA775 Conroe" 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £169.99
(£199.74)

Gigabyte GA_P35_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £94.99
(£111.61)

Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £74.99
(£88.11)

OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM £269.99
(£317.24)

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99
(£7.04)

Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA663) £49.99
(£58.74)

Total : £1,087.87


Im umming an urring over the graphics card at the moment, I would appreciate some input, before I have always been an ATI man however reviews speak highly of this card……….any thoughts?

Any feedback much appreciated guys!

Mike

 

[Aloreth]

Oh also I have a ThermalTake Tsunami Dream case sitting here at the moment which I could strip out for my new rig if everything would fit in there? Would there be any problem with that?

I also have 2 x 1 gig of Corsair XMS 3200 1024 400 Mhz sticks, would this memory be any use in the machine? Im guessing I cant salvage this - would bottleneck right....right?

Spare Antex Neo480 - perhaps the best PSU i have ever had! would this provide enough power?

 

[Aloreth]

Thats great guys thanks!

I changed the heatsink to the tuniq one, googled it and read some of the reviews and seems pretty good. Thanks for that one Jaffa Cake!

Is there any point in waiting for the drop in intel prices? Any ideas how much lower the C2D price will fall? I figured primarily it was aimed at the quad cores!

I was planning on ordering this today so if anyone out there has an opinion it would be appreciated!

Thanks all

Mike - quivering with anticipation

Oh and any thouts on the icemat gaming mousemats? Im not so fussed about "1337" gaming skills, more concerned about carpul tunnel.....