Pre build advice

[speedyj]

I have the following parts and am ready to build, any advice would be greatly appreciated as I have not built a rig for nearly 18 months..........I cannot believe how excited I am like a kid in a candy shop.

C2D E6850
OCZ 4GB (4x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Arctic Silver 5
Radeon X800GT (Changing very soon)
Akasa 8-Pin 30cm PSU Extension Cable
Corsair VX 450W ATX PSU
Coolermaster CM-690 Dominator
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
Samsung 245B
An older NEC DVD+-RW and Philips DVDR 1660

I'd really like to put Vista Home Premium 64 bit on this machine and again would like any advice from peoples previous builds.

BTW I have to say that the CM 690 is fantastic for the money, cases have really improved.

 

[crazyDAJT]

plan what your doing.

take your time

and vista 64bit has a problem with accepting 4GB of ram until its patched, so just install 2GB and then patch it. this stung me for quite a bit. see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929777

also if its not going to plan, don't though bits of hardware across the room in frustration, it can get exspensive

 

[speedyj]

No worries, I'll be methodical.

Although I've not tinkered for a long while I have done the lot in the past, water cooling, phase change ................ and yes, I have thrown stuff but then I suspect we all have

Its really if there are any things to look out for with this mix of kit that I'm interested in.

Having looked arount the net a bit, I think Vista 32bit may be more sensible for me.