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Bluenose

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Been waiting in the new ATI cards coming out before i went for a new build i haven't build a comp in about 5 years now so not sure about some items here and there any advice would be good.

All in this comes to £725 with 2 fans and a fan filter for the antec 300.

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card Card £198.98

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM + Windows 7 Upgrade Voucher £94.99

AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) £92.99

Asus M4A785TD-V Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £70.99

G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL8D-4GBRM) £67.99

Seagate Barracuda LP 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000520AS) £55.99

OCZ ModXStream Pro 500w Silent SLI Ready Modular Power Supply £52.99

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) £45.99

Samsung SH-S223B/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99

I'm wondering whether the PSU will be able to handle it all.

I've got a feeling i'm missing something from that list (mouse , keyboard and monitor excepted ofc).
 
That spec looks excellent, apart from a few things:

Windows Vista is not worth getting at this stage - Windows 7 is coming out in less than a month. If I were you, get a windows 7 RC product key from here and get the Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 .iso from an alternate download source. Then install windows 7 when it comes out (or you can continue to legally use the Release candidate until March).

As for PSU, I suggest giving this one a look.

For a primary hard disk, you something fast - ideally spinning at 7200rpm. This one would be a better choice.

This DVD Rewriter is better.
 
Go Quad Core, if you can afford it, the extra core although not handy now if you don't need it, might be for future purposes, also quad handles 1080p movies quite well as well as other multi tasking.

Quads - closely priced to yours.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-258-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=803
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-259-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=803
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-239-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1328

power supply is not really future proof but will do the job for the kit you have chosen

An option if you want to consider:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-032-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=
 
Thank you for reply's.

I'm too lazy for that windows 7 RC i'd rather pay £30 and have vista for a few weeks.

I swapped the hard drive for the 7200rpm seagate mentioned and swapped the PSU for the coolermaster.

Bring's everything i want to a perfect number of £749 with delivery.
 
If you don't plan on overclocking, then an aftermarket CPU cooler is not required. However, there are several reasons why getting one would be a good idea:

1) A good one will run much cooler than the stock one.
2) A good one will run much quieter than the stock one.
3) Even though you don't currently plan to overclock, having the cooler installed gives you the ability to overclock at any time.
4) That CPU you chose is a fantastic overclocker and can go over 3.5GHz with not too much trouble (3.8GHz is the ceiling I believe), also if you are lucky and the 4th core is undamaged, just disabled- you can unlock it and turn the CPU into a quad core (this requires extra cooling). Overclocking can give you higher framerates in CPU heavy games and improve performance in CPU bound applications.
5) It looks awesome with a big cooler on it.

Out of interest, this is a good value, high performance cooler I would recommend (especially as it is on offer this week).
 
Thank's for the fast reply.

If i ever feel the CPU ends up running too hot through normal use then ill go back and install one but atm it seems like an extravagance that isnt fully necessary.
 
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