What would you change? and why?

Jody

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this is the setup im gonna order 1st jan after much thought and reading:

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)
(£68.14)
Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard
(£72.84)
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Dual Channel Kit x2
(£56.39) £95.98
(£112.78)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz
(£152.74)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM
(£72.84)
Coolermaster RC-1000 Cosmos Silent Full Tower Case
(£117.49)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
(£7.04)
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
(£32.89)
Samsung SH-S203NBEBN 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter
(£19.96)
Western Digital Raptor 150GB 10000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM
(£113.96)
OcUK ATI Radeon HD 3850 Pro 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) -
(£111.61)
Sub Total : £750.88
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : FREE
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £131.40
Total : £882.28

I will be encoding mainly but want to oc the balls of it when i learn how

Your opinions are appreciated
 
i would change the ram to GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC), it may not be as Overclockable, but it does have a lower failure rate. ballastix is good stuff but tricky to use when OCing in my opinion. it dies too easily, their excellelent custumer service does make up for it a bit though or look at a 2x2GB kit, to give you a choice of 8GB if needed

also your sig seems to be too big, i think
 
I would not bother with the raptox x. The best 7200 drives have outperformed it and for like £30-£40 less.
As above, go for geil ram. The motherboard is an excellent choice.
 
Most of the high end overclockers would have and do have the ballistix over the geil ram

Its better Ram period.

As for the raptor this subject has been done to death and having one for the OS is again what most top end enthusiast have.

I for one have a 150gig raptor as the boot drive.

They are faster at loading windows and have faster access times.

Its faster having the OS on a single drive to where the data is.
 
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