*sighs* another spec check

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ok after along checking for income from job, student loans and such, found a perfect set of gear



HD-007-WD Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB WD360GD 10,000RPM SATA 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-007-WD)
£62.95 £62.95
CP-151-AM AMD Opteron UP 165 Dual Core San Diego 1.8GHz 2MB Cache (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-151-AM)
£221.95 £221.95
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£94.95 £94.95

was thinking of
MY-094-CS Corsair 2GB DDR XMS4000PT TwinX (2x1GB) CAS3 (MY-094-CS)
as i was going to be over clocking or will Geil do?

GX-076-XF XFX GeForce 7900 GT Extreme Edition 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (PVT71G-UDER) (GX-076-XF)
£224.95 £224.95
FG-000-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£12.95 £12.95
AC-000-AC Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) (AC-000-AC)
£5.50 £5.50
HD-046-WD Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-046-WD)
£55.95 £55.95
CA-024-EN Enermax Liberty 620W ELT620AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-024-EN)
£89.95 £89.95

all going into the things in my siggy, wanted to check for sure that evrything would be ok, was gonna go for a ninja that big heatsink but heard problems like it touches the case so nah, im going to put a 40gb and a 80gb hard dives, the 10k will be for the operating system only . Well there ya go peoples!
 
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just a suggestion but instead of the raptor and the 250gb SATA2 why not try this:

4 x 80gb Hitachi Deskstars in a raid0+1 configuration:

This will be cheaper, faster and more reliable than the raptor and will give you total storage of 160gb with the other 160gb as a mirror to backup your first 160gb should anything happen to them.
 
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Personally I'd drop the Raptor and just stick with a quieter proven disk like a Spinpoint or the Hitachi's ( I use the former and they are excellent, Hitachi's seem to be seeing favour of late ).
 
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