Please spec this list before I purchase

[Participant]

Hi peeps finally time for an upgrade, but can you just check this lot before I place the order because, as you can see from my signature, I haven't upgraded in a while and am not fully o.k. with today's technology.

What I'm planning to buy:

Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £194.99

Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £91.99

Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £114.99

2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £54.95 £109.90 (RAID-0)

Crucial 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ballistix Dual Channel Kit £199.99

Total incl vat, shipping £846.96

What I already have that will be used in the new rig:

Lian-Li PC7B+II (black)
Hanns-G 19" widescreen TFT
Logitech black cordless keyboard and mouse
Microsoft sidewinder joystick
Logitech DFP steering wheel
Floppy drive / DVD- ROM / CD-RW
Sound blaster 5.1 Live! Digital
Wireless network card

So, what do you reckon? Are there any glaring errors on my spec or areas that I can improve upon for the money / things I should change?

Many many thanks for any help, I want to get this right so that I don't have to upgrade again for hopefully a few years.

EDIT - changed the hard drives and memory as this board will allow me to use my old IDE HDDs as storage.

 

[Participant]

Apologies, should have said - this is very much an all-round PC. It will be used for everything (practically ) that a PC can be used for

music
videos / movies
games
internet
word processing
excel / work stuff
codecing videos

...and more as I learn it!

 

[Participant]

do you have a decent PSU to power all that?

and how about getting a 6300 OEM instead, and using the saved money on a Scythe Ninja Plus Heatpipe CPU Cooler and a x1900xt instead of x1800xt?

Hi, I have an Akasa Paxpower 460W - should cope no? i hope so as I've only bought it a few months ago!

The E6300 is an interesting option. The only thing I'm thinking is that it might become a bottleneck when Vista / DX10 is here to stay whereas the E6600 might last further into the future?