Need a little help on final spec

[bliss000]

I'm in need of a new system as my old AMD Barton is not quite cutting it for music creation anymore. Plus the old 4200ti isn't going to cut it with Stalker and Bioshock

Here's my seventh or eighth parts list:

CPU:
E4300

Cooler:
Freezer 7 Pro

Memory:
Crucial Ballistix 1GB
Motherboard:
Gigabyte GA 965P-DS3
GFX:
Sapphire X1950Pro

Case:
Antec P180
Hard Drive:
Samsung Spinpoint 320GB
DVD Drive:
LG ?
PSU:
520w Corsair
Media:
AKASA card reader

existing 1212m soundcard and copy of Win XP.

Half of this would be from OC and the rest from another site. It comes to around £550. I could push my budget up to £600. I don't want to go any higher.

Which components would you change/upgrade, bareing in mind that:

1. it need's to be very quiet (I record vocals a few meters away from the computer).

2. I plan to overclock, but not at the expense of a noisy system. Probably a moderate overclock.

Does anyone know how long the cables are on the Corsair PSU. They need to be quite long for the P180 case.

Thanks for any help

 

[JamesU2005]

Only thing I'd say is try and push your budget for an DX10 card. Wait until the R600 is out, should help reduce prices of Nvidia's.

 

[Sudden_SD]

£592

For what you need the pc to do at that budget it is kind of hard, but i have gone for 2GB of ram and the E6320 for it's 4mb cache, as i feel they will give you the best performance in the fields you stated.