What do you think of this? for £900?

[Corbula]

CPU: Intel® Core 2 Quad Q6600
CPU Cooler: Coolermaster Eclipse
Motherboard: Asus P5N-D SLI
Memory: 4.0GB Corsair DDR2 800mhz XMS2 (2x 2GB)
Hard Drives: 500GB S-ATA2 3.0Gb/s
Optical Drive: 20x DVD±RW DL S-ATA Lightscribe
Graphics card: NVidia GeForce 8800GTS 512MB
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
TV card: PCI Digital TV Tuner Card
PSU: 750W Thermaltake Toughpower
Case: Thermaltake Armor

What do you think all for £900

Anything you would change

P.S. if it matters its on a 19" monitor

 

[Corbula]

anybody?

 

[Chimerical]

Swap the Thermaltake PSU for an Enermax one in my opinion. Better quality units.

Also, why are you buying Vista Ultimate instead of Home Premium?

And, unless you're going for SLi, buy a P35 motherboard instead of that NForce 750i one.

Plus, change that case ASAP.

Thermaltakes suck imo. Overpriced and shoddy build quality. Buy a similarly priced Lian Li instead.

 

[psychas]

Swap the Thermaltake PSU for an Enermax one in my opinion. Better quality units.

Also, why are you buying Vista Ultimate instead of Home Premium?

And, unless you're going for SLi, buy a P35 motherboard instead of that NForce 750i one.

Plus, change that case ASAP.

Thermaltakes suck imo. Overpriced and shoddy build quality. Buy a similarly priced Lian Li instead.

+1

 

[Captain_Slick]

If you can afford it, I'd swap the CPU for the Q9300. It's only £30~ more, but it'll run cooler and consume less power, as well as being generally a bit faster.

 

[Klo]

If you can afford it, I'd swap the CPU for the Q9300. It's only £30~ more, but it'll run cooler and consume less power, as well as being generally a bit faster.

Unless you want to O/C, then you can probably go a bit higher than with a Q6600.

 

[Chimerical]

Q9300 is actually worse than the Q6600 and more expensive.

It has less cache, barely runs any faster at stock speed and will not O/C as high or higher than the Q6600.

 

[PhoenixUK]

LianLi is 2x more expensive for the same features ;o. If you want to get good lian case u gotta spend minimum 160 quid. All the cheaper ones are utter rubbish.

About the PSU surely enermax is maybe good but again the price is almost 2x higher.
I've had so far tagan, corsair and thermaltake and i would say thermaltake was best of them, and is also the cheapest.
As others have said, get p35 mobo.

And one last thing if you dont do heavy audio/video encoding I would grab wolfdale instead of quad. And if you do encoding then get 8gig ram.

Now for the rest, get Tuniq tower for cooling (OCing or not, its uber silent and cools well)

 

[Chimerical]

LianLi is 2x more expensive for the same features ;o. If you want to get good lian case u gotta spend minimum 160 quid. All the cheaper ones are utter rubbish.

About the PSU surely enermax is maybe good but again the price is almost 2x higher.
I've had so far tagan, corsair and thermaltake and i would say thermaltake was best of them, and is also the cheapest.
As others have said, get p35 mobo.

And one last thing if you dont do heavy audio/video encoding I would grab wolfdale instead of quad. And if you do encoding then get 8gig ram.

Now for the rest, get Tuniq tower for cooling (OCing or not, its uber silent and cools well)

I disagree with most of that. The cheapest Armour is £100, you could buy a Lian-Li PC-A17 for the same amount of money and it would destroy the Thermaltake. Likewise Thermaltake PSU's are cheap, but that just means they're more budget in terms of build quality. Enermax are superior and I wouldn't say Enermax PSU's are double the price. The Modu range is pretty in-keeping with the 500W Thermaltake price. 8GB of RAM can also, so I've read, cause too much strain on the chipset, and isn't really necessary unless you're using programs like Adobe After Effects. Tuniq Tower and P35 motherboard I agree with however.