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I already have my Silverstone Ft01 case, but these are the rest of the components that I was hoping to order today or tomorrow. Does it look ok, as it's a first time build?

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 940 Black Edition 3.0GHz (Socket AM2+) -

Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) £48.29

Asus M3A79-T Deluxe AMD 790FX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2

G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PK PC2-8500C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK)

BFG GeForce GTX 285 OC 1024MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 Graphics Card -
- Memory: 1024MB GDDR3
- Memory Clock: 2484MHz (Effective)
- Shader Clock: 1512MHz

Zalman ZM750-HP Heatpipe Cooled 750W Modular Power Supply

Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD753LJ)

Samsung SH-S202N/BEBN 20x DVD±RW IDE Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter

I've gone for the GTX285 rather than the 260 (even though it's a lot more money) because I don't intend to upgrade fthe GPU for some time. If you go for a top of line 285, will you see much difference from the lower end? One last thing, are BFG a good make or should I be looking at EVGA? Hope this all seems to cobble together reasonably well?

Thanks for checking.
 
gfx card wise very much the same in my experience, go with bfg seem decent enough from what i've seen.

swap the dvd drive for the sata version.

everything else looks fine, not sure if you'll need the pc8500 memory, as iirc mulitplyer can be used to clock the Phenom.
 
Oops, I meant Sata. Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by iirc mulitplyer?

sorry about that :), from what i've seen of the Phenom's, and it might be worth u checking the cpu and overclocking forums, they can be overclocked using the mulitplyer, rather than just having to up the fsb, so you could get pc6400 memory and you're fsb running at 400, then up the multiplyer to clock it rather than needing the pc8500 memory.

as mentioned reckon it would be worth u having a look in the cpu and overclocking sections to get an idea of how there clocking and the setups used.
 
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