New Build advise needed

Soldato
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Building a new system with these components;

Coolermaster Gladiator 600 Mid Tower Case £ 45.58 ex VAT
Antec Basiq 550W PSU £ 52 ex VAT
Western Digital 1TB Hard Drive £ 32.33 ex VAT
Crucial 8GB (4GBx2) PC10600 DDR3 1333 RAM £ 66.49 ex VAT
MSI Radeon 5850 Twin Frozr II 1GB £ 119.99 ex VAT

Delivery for the graphics card is £ 11.95 the rest is free delivery, all in all a total of £ 328.94 ex VAT inc Delivery (I live in the Channel Islands so do not pay VAT)

This leaves me to ponder either the i5 760 s1156 & mobo or i5 2500k s1155 & mobo.

Do you think I have made the right choice in components so far is the RAM going to be good enough to overclock an i5 760 or i5 2500k, what about the graphics card I heard it was better then the GTX 460.

Is the case alright, I would have preferred the Antec 300 but is it as good and what about the PSU in hindsight wish I had gone for the earthwatts 650 for a few pounds more but at least the Antec Basic 550 is modular.
 
Hey, its ok but if you havent already ordered and you do plan to OC it would be better to get some faster rated RAM if you can, so as youre only OCing your CPU and not the actual RAM which is usually first thing to fail in my experience
Id say definitely wait for the new SB
the gfx card is good yeah and whilst the PSU is a bit basic (hence the name) it should suffice
 
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