My Planned £2000 PC System -Thoughts/Input/Opinions?

Yeah, I have changed my mine jak731. I am going to get the following board/memory.

ASUS Maximus Formula x38 DDR2 board with 4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 PC2-8500 (1066), 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-15, EPP, DHX.

Total comes to £250, much better since the ram alone was £270 for DDR3, Everywhere I have posted have said don't waste your time on DDR2. Articles like this back that up.

http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/cpu/ddr2-800-vs-ddr3-1333.html

Sure DDR3 will be better but not for a while, a good while and even then actual real world differences will be hard to see.

Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler £38
Scythe S-FLEX 1600RPM Ultra Quiet 120mm Fan - 3/4 Pin £12

Those two are pretty much the best CPU Cooling options So I hear, so I look forward to getting 3.6ghz from the 2.6ghz, that should be a no brainer right?

Must get Antec 182 and not Lian Li, I don't see any reviews for Lian Li cases that I like, is that a telling sign?

ATLANT3AN

Final?
Motherboard

Asus Maximus Formula Intel X38 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £152

CPU

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz (Retail 775) £200

Memory

4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 PC2-8500 (1066) £91

Case

Antec P182 Advanced Super Midi Tower Black £81

Graphics Card

BFB Ge Force 8800GT 512mb (Already own)

Note: Will upgrade to a better GC at a later date, this will do fine for now.

Hard Drives

500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA2 32MB ST3500320AS 7200RPM x2 £135

500GB Seagate eSATA External hard disk £81

PSU

Tagan 1100W Modular BZ Piperock Series £170

Note: This is a steep price and probably the only thing I could still change my mind on.

Monitor

Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey £458

Note: It's expensive but boy is it good, seeing as it has HDMI and about 2 dozen other connectors on the back I can use my Xbox 360 on it as well, so it's kind of like I am buying a TV as well as a monitor.

Sound System

Logitech Z-5500 THX Certified 5.1 Speaker System £199

Note: This one really does eclipse the Creative one, read countless reviews on how great t is. so changed to this (It was actualy my original choice)

Optical Drive

Asus DRW-2014L1T 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black/Silver) - Retail £25

Note: Upgrade to a good Blu Ray RE later

CPU Cooler

Scythe S-FLEX 1600RPM Ultra Quiet 120mm Fan - 3/4 Pin £12
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler £38

Note: Will this be enough to make clocking the Q9450 from 2.6ghz to 3.6ghz a no brainer?

Peripherals

Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller £20

Random Mouse £30

Akasa SATA to eSATA Adapter Kit £3 (Motherboard does not have eSATA)

Note: Will keep my current keyboarb

Total Cost

£1744 (Added from totals - three sites ordering things from)

Later Addons

Better GC
Blu Ray RE Optical Drive
 
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psu wise i'd look at the corsair 620 or the PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750W.

surprised about the lian li tbh, highly rated as far as i was aware.
 
There is a power calculator somewhere, I am sure someone will pop in and post a link.

Nearly every spec me / review on this site seems to think a 620w psu (usually corsair) is fine for anything you can throw at it atm.
 
as your pc stands, 500W is enough, however depending on the power consumption of parts in the future when you upgrade, you may want to consider at least a 600W to keep you safe. personally i see the only reason for getting a 1000W+ GPU is if you run a system with quad GPUs quad core CPU and watercooling
 
Which competitor link? If you mean newegg I didn't see it as a competitor seeing as it doesn't ship to the UK, but sure if you mean that.

Corsair PSU it is, Probably will get 750w one, much lower than 1100w which I agree is unneeded.

Corsair TX 750W ATX2.2 SLI Compliant PSU
 
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From what I remember the TX series are non-modular whereas the HX series is, so keep that in mind for your choice.

As a few people have said the HX 620W will be more than fine for your system.
 
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