New build advice

[Vault13Jon]

Hi there.

I would be gratefully appreciative if someone could check through my build to make sure I’m not about to make some unwise choices and that more importantly tell me if I’m going to have any major compatibility problems with this rig.

I am going to be using the computer primarily for work which involves some rendering, video editing and general post production stuffs. I do game when I get chance but that doesn’t have to factor into this too much since I’m not aiming for everything on FULL whack whilst playing and I move between the 360 and pc for games anyway.
I set my budget to go no higher than the £700 mark but could push an extra £50-£100. That said, I’m all for lowering it if I can haha! Anyway, what I found below falls just over 700. Will this setup by adequate for what I want to do with it or are some of my choices overkill/not enough?
Feel free to suggest anything you see as a good swap for what I put.
What I have so far:

-Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz (1333FSB) – Retail (£149.49)
-Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (£103.49)
-Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) (£40.24)
-Asus ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail (£132.24)
-Corsair HX520W ATX 2.2 PSU (£61.99) Big enough for what I will be running?
-Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502IJ) (£44.84)
-Samsung SH-S223F/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (£14.94)
-Windows Vista 64 BIT Premium OEM SP1 (£87.39)
-Antec 900 Ultimate gaming case or Antec 300 ultimate gaming case (£71.29) (£50.59) PC will be air cooled so I tried to choose the case with that in mind. I have a Arctic cooler 7 spare from a previous comp, will that do for cpu cooling?

Grand total: £705.91 assuming I get the 900 gaming case.
This PC will be my first real delve into OC'ing as I'll finally have a spare pc to fall back on in case I fail horribly and knack it. Good combination for a first attempt?

Thanks for any advice, ask if you need more info!

 

[GSDog]

Hi and welcome.

It looks great to me. I'd go for the 640GB Samsung hdd as it will be a bit quicker.
The Arctic cooler 7 will work fine with that build.

 

[jak731]

do your rendering and video editing programs support quad cores? if so you may want to look at the q6600, if your budget it tight or if you are willing to look at the 45nm quad range such as the q9550

 

[Vault13Jon]

Funnily enough, after having trawled through these forums and a few others I got the sense that quad core was better suited to apps (provided they support it) and multitasking where as duo is more slanted towards the games which have yet to fully embrace quad? Choose the E8400 more for its price.

Its seems it’s a bit mix and match for the apps that support quad and those that don’t (YET) but most rendering programs seem to use multithreading and I found some bench's between quad and duo with some of the main ones I use so I think it would be a safe bet to go for a quad for what I want to use it for.
Is there any difference between the range of Q6600’s on OC’s website other than the guarantee of reaching a certain clock speed? I hear they are good little clocker’s so I don’t think I’ll pay the extra for that guarantee.
Anyways, I think the Q6600 and then oc up to somewhere around 3ghz for a first clock should be good? Better than my current Intel Pentium 4 Processor 550 3.4GHz cpu!
Oh and just noticed the 640 samsung hdd is currently out of stock with no eta! Worth waiting till it comes back in?

Thanks again for your help guys, getting excited about this now haha!

 

[jak731]

all are q6600s are the same at ocuk, you just pay for the right to return it if it doesnt reach the stated OCable speeds under certain conditions such as how much volts you need