Think I'm settled

[1LoveridgeC]

Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)
- Retail £173.99(£204.44)

Enermax Liberty 500W ELT500AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU £59.99(£70.49)

PowerColor ATI Radeon X1950 Pro Extreme SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
£131.99(£155.09)

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
£114.99(£135.11)

Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99(£82.24)

Arctic Cooling T2 Pro Case Arctic Cooling T2 Pro Case
£56.99(£66.96)

2X Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160GB ST3160815A ATA-100 8MB Cache - OEM
£67.98(£79.88)

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (N09-01528) £49.99(£58.74)
Sub Total : £725.91
Shipping : £12.95
Vat : £129.30
Total : £868.16

What do you think

 

[Will_3rd]

looks good part from the power supply, you might want to consider a Corsair 520/620 watt PSU

as the CPU, are you looking to do much overclocking? if so I would recommend a 4300 or 6300

 

[1LoveridgeC]

Nope I doubt I will overclock it... I think the PSU was recommended by someone on here

 

[stickroad]

Change the PSU to a Corsair, everyone recommends them, you cant go wrong with one.

 

[1LoveridgeC]

will I need 520W or 620W

 

[stickroad]

Personally i would go for a 620, mainly for future purposes.

 

[killer_uk]

Instead of two IDE hard drives, why not get a single SATA drive thats cheaper?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-078-SE

Plus it has more cache.

EDIT: I think the 320gb drivers are slightly faster as well.

 

[stickroad]

Ah didnt see the hard drives lol.

Yeah go with a SATA Hard Drive.

The Seagate ones are nice, the one that killer_uk pointed out.

 

[1LoveridgeC]

hmm... a techie guy locally said that having two HDD was a better idea?

 

[Minstadave]

hmm... a techie guy locally said that having two HDD was a better idea?

You can stripe the data across two drives, but the speed gains for normal users are minimal, and it means if one drive dies you lose all your data.

SATA is the way to go over IDE drives, neater cabling and slightly better performance. The Seagate 7200.10 is the best drive around currently so stick with a SATA version of that.

The case you've chosen is a problem however, it comes with a PSU, but its an odd case with a non-standard layout, so you can't remove the PSU it has and replace it. I had one of these, and its actually not bad at all noisewise and nice and small, but not being able to upgrade the PSU is a pain, and it isn't great cooling wise.

 

[1LoveridgeC]

You can stripe the data across two drives, but the speed gains for normal users are minimal, and it means if one drive dies you lose all your data.

SATA is the way to go over IDE drives, neater cabling and slightly better performance. The Seagate 7200.10 is the best drive around currently so stick with a SATA version of that.

The case you've chosen is a problem however, it comes with a PSU, but its an odd case with a non-standard layout, so you can't remove the PSU it has and replace it. I had one of these, and its actually not bad at all noisewise and nice and small, but not being able to upgrade the PSU is a pain, and it isn't great cooling wise.

Right thanks, very interesting, are there any case you would recommend?

 

[1LoveridgeC]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-065-AN

Is this one any good?>

 

[Minstadave]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-065-AN

Is this one any good?>

Good value, good cooling, good choice

Its not pretty though

 

[1LoveridgeC]

Good value, good cooling, good choice

Its not pretty though

hehe... if there are any better options, please say

 

[Minstadave]

The akasa eclipse is a nice case, might be work poopping into the case forum and asking there, they know more about it than I do

 

[1LoveridgeC]

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