Updating older PC - > Spec me please?

No, the HDD is SATA.
No (decent) computer shops in my vacinity!

I've got two IDE burners on one IDE channel.
 
Buy the time you find and buy a PCI card that has IDE connectors its just easier and neater to buy a new drive.
 
I think I read somewhere that the difference between video editting on the i7 vs the i5 is 50% (due to the i7 having 8threads over the i5's 4) which sounds impressive but when a video takes 20minutes to encode.. taking it down to 10minutes really doesn't seem worth the cost difference and to be future proof you'd be better waiting for Ivybridge and then getting the i7 if thats what you had really wanted.

After writing all that out and then googling, I come across this:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/...core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/16

Check out the video editting page of that to, I havnt read it all only looked at the two pages but going by those its really not worth the extra 90quid

I know you've ordered already though but you can always send back ;)
 
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Just to let you all know - parts arrived, put together and for the first time I think in my IT career - EVERYTHING worked perfectly!

I got around the burner problem - I had a USB caddy, so put the burner in that and connected via USB. Told PC to boot from USB - problem solved.

Win7 64Bit installed, everything good as can be. Been playing Black Ops - WOW what a difference.

EBay has IDE to SATA converters for £2.35 inc postage, so I may do that until I have a bit more money for a blu-ray burner.

Temp wise - currently with stock cooler. Cores are were about 31C with the sides off, now about 38 with sides on and after playing Black Ops. Cores are going up to about 60, so looks like that Corsair will be going in after all.

Thanks to all for the advice. And ToejaMz0r, I'll stick with the i7 now ;-)
 
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