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Hi there,
I'm new to the forums, and looking for some advice
I'm looking to build a new PC from scratch, I live abroad atm parts here are bad so OCUK has been a savior, I would like to know any comments/suggestions for the following setup, and thoughts on the cooling specifically, the case/cooler should be enough, its just with the room temperature here being 35-45 degrees in the summer, would be nice to keep it running smooth, current setup has one broken CPU fan, the side of my case off, with a huge desktop fan pointing inside to keep it cool, it works;D but would be nice to have a PC with a proper cooling system ^^
Here are the parts I'm looking at;
Any thoughts of my suggestions/possible upgrades? looking to keep the price range of £1300 roughly, This will be the first PC i've built myself, so what other things will I need with these parts, how much thermal paste? do i need extra cables/screws?
Thanks in advance
Russell
I'm new to the forums, and looking for some advice

I'm looking to build a new PC from scratch, I live abroad atm parts here are bad so OCUK has been a savior, I would like to know any comments/suggestions for the following setup, and thoughts on the cooling specifically, the case/cooler should be enough, its just with the room temperature here being 35-45 degrees in the summer, would be nice to keep it running smooth, current setup has one broken CPU fan, the side of my case off, with a huge desktop fan pointing inside to keep it cool, it works;D but would be nice to have a PC with a proper cooling system ^^
Here are the parts I'm looking at;
- XFX ATI Radeon 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card [HD-695A-CNFC]
- Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 Intel P67 Chipset (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION **
- Intel Core i7-2600 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail [BX80623I72600]
- G.Skill RipJawsX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C9 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-17000CL9D-4GBXL) [F3-17000CL9D-4GBXL] <-- 2 sets of this
- Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CMPSU-850TXV2UK) [CMPSU-850TXV2]
- Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred (V3 with USB3.0) Ultimate Gaming Case - Black
- Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3)
- LG GH22NS70 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM [GH22NS70]
- LG BH10LS30 10x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Drive - Black (OEM) [BH10LS30.AUAU]
- Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1002FAEX) <- 2 of these
Any thoughts of my suggestions/possible upgrades? looking to keep the price range of £1300 roughly, This will be the first PC i've built myself, so what other things will I need with these parts, how much thermal paste? do i need extra cables/screws?
Thanks in advance
Russell