Need Advice On Building My First Computer

silvara · 30 Dec 2006 at 09:41

Hi,
Am attempting to build my first computer after too many years of buying ready built ones from [No competitors please - Minstadave], and have picked out the following parts so far...

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CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, Socket 775, 2.4 GHz, 1066MHz FSB, Conroe Core, 4MB Cache, Retail £198.21

Motherboard - ASUS P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP iP965, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX £123.32

Case - Akasa Eclipse-62 Midi Tower Case - Hi-End £82.18

PSU - 600w Seasonic S12-600 SLi Ready Silent PSU 2xPCI-E 4xSATA 120mm Fan ATX1.3/2.01 £89.29

Memory - GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £173.89

HDD - 500Gb Seagate ST3500630AS Barracuda 7200.10, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.5 ms, NCQ £116.31

Soundcard - Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Music £83.90

Graphics - BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £387.74

DVD Writer - Pioneer DVR-111BK 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - (Black) – OEM £21.56

Floppy Drive & Card Reader Mitsumi FA404M 1.44 Black FDD+Int USB2 7 in 1 Card Reader (SM/MMC/SD/CF/MD/MS) Fits in 3.5" FDD Bay £14.09

Fans - Akasa AK174CB-4BLB 120mm Blue LED Fan x2 £9.34

OS - Windows Vista £185.00
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What do you guys think? Would this system work nicely? Ideally I want something that will last me for a while and be easily upgradeable..

Any comments & suggestions would be really appreicated!

thefishdude · 30 Dec 2006 at 13:33

nice spec

the only thing i would change is yoru hardrive. i would get 2 smaller drives instead of one large put windows and programs and games on 1 and use other for storage.

how ever i did notice the samsung spinpoint 500gb on special this week at 109. anyone any thoughts on that drive ?

silvara · 30 Dec 2006 at 15:22

Thanks for the advice - I will look into doing that instead

alex2zulu · 30 Dec 2006 at 17:07

ill asume your going to be playing games on a spec like that
(it being all pirtty and all)
but i would recommend the next soundcard up from the one u have listed the music version doesnt have the "64mX-RAM" that the extream gamer fatlaity does and its about the same price i payed £93 for mine. They really rock out, works perfectly on everything and gives me a bit smoother gameplay aswell (2142 , dawn of war dark crusade, jedi acadimy)

nice rig though, *green eyes*

(*spelling*) my soz'z

silvara · 30 Dec 2006 at 18:31

Thanks for that - sounds like good advice since it doesn't cost mush more

silvara · 30 Dec 2006 at 19:07

Would I be mad to swap the Asus P5B Motherboard for :

EVGA nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

???
Starting to prefer this one now....

tim_enchanter · 30 Dec 2006 at 19:16

Nice spec

As well as getting 2 HDDs I would reommend getting a different fan those standard blues are loud, either look at getting a Ambers instead or consider running the blues at a lower voltage.