Spec me a computer please :)

[Muntyness]

Hi all.

I'm building a new computer and I need help specing it.

This computer will mostly be for Gaming/Programming/Movies. It also needs to have 2 hard drives so I can use RAID 1 for backing up. (Otherwise I'll never get around to backing up important files ) This computer also needs to be relatively quiet.

Here's what I'm thinking of:


What do you guys think?

My budget for this is roughly £1100, so feel free to suggest away.

I've also got roughly £300 for a monitor, which I want to use for the computer/xbox 360, so if you've got any suggestions of a good one to get I'd appreciate it

 

[Muntyness]

Hey all, thanks for the advice

Based on what you're saying I've put together another spec that looks like this:

What do you guys think?

Little bit of explanation for my decisions:
I'm going with an Nvidia card, simpily because I wont be able to justify a new graphics card purchase for atleast another year.

The Western digital drives were included mainly because I've seen some reviews that the Seagate ones can be loud.

The case, because I like how it looks

And the 620W PSU because I have an extra TV card I'll probably be shoving into the case.

t31os: The whole reason for Raid is because eventually I'm going to loose a drive somehow, and I never get round to doing disk backups.

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Just a couple more questions for you guys.

You all seem to be agreement about the CPU cooler, so should I just order it now? (It's out of stock at the moment, so the sooner I order it the better really.

Also, any recomendations on a monitor? (I'm planing on dual screening with my current monitor, because after using Dual screens away from home, I just can't go back to a single monitor )

 

[Muntyness]

I'm going to be buying/building the computer over the next 2-3 weeks anyway, so I don't really mind waiting for the cooler to be delivered.

I guess I'll go bug the monitor forum about the monitor then (Monitor numbers confuse me )

Thanks for the helps all.