Quick spec check please

[Sirrel Squirrel]

I'm about to order the following, just need to know if it'll all work nicely together and any changes I should make.

Akasa Eclipse

Intel E6750

Gigabyte P35C DS3R

2x1GB Corsair PC6400 4-4-4-12

Silent 512MB ATI HD2600 (I won't be doing much gaming, more video editing, just went with this as a cheap option for a PCI-E gfx card, I can always upgrade later if need be)

Corsair 520W PSU

Samsung 203 DVDRW Drive (IDE)

500GB WD AAKS HDD, I've got 4 other hard drives that will also be going into this system.

All that sound good?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

It looks good but I'd like to squeeze a Quad into that spec. How much are you looking to spend?

 

[Sirrel Squirrel]

Budget is about £600, so the Q6600 would be a better option than the E6750?

edit/ comes to £615 with the Quad, might as well go for it

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I think so. It's more future proof and is definitely worth it at the current price.

How's this:

 

[hp7909]

Budget is about £600, so the Q6600 would be a better option than the E6750?

For video editing/encoding/etc yes

Recommend you get a SATA DVD±Writer instead. Mobo can take 8 such devices

 

[Sirrel Squirrel]

Is there an advantage with the SATA version of the drive, other than being neater?

Cheers for the spec Billy but the case can't hold all my drives

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Cheers for the spec Billy but the case can't hold all my drives

How many drives to do need to install of each variety?

The benefit of SATA optical drives is that they're just as fast as their IDE brothers, just as expensive (relatively), and they use nicer cabling. PATA is dying and it offers few advantages over SATA.

 

[Sirrel Squirrel]

I'll have 5 SATA HDDs in total, I was going to go for the IDE burner just in case I want to add any more HDDs, I get through a lot of disk space with my editing.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

You can fit that many in a PC-7. Three go in the gage at the lower front. Two go in the floppy rack at the front center. I used mine like this for months without issue.

The Eclipse, of course, is a fantastic case. I dropped down to the Lian-Li so as to squeeze the C2Q into the budget.

 

[Sirrel Squirrel]

True, I do like the Eclipse though, I'm only £15 over budget having C2Q and the Eclipse so think I'll just go for it