New system. This look ok?

[The_Biggles]

Putting together a new sys together for the new year. Will be for CoD:AW mostly, but future-proofing a bit too. Prob have Vista Ultimate on it, but might stick with XP. Will decide this week.

Already have :

• Antec P180 case
• PSU
• Optical drives

How about these bits to finish it off? : (Edited)

• Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKS) £55.99 (£65.79)
• Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99 (£7.04)
• Asus GeForce EN8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £139.99 (£164.49)
• OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-5400C5 Dual Channel Vista Upgrade Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2VU6674GK) £49.99 (£58.74)
• Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £129.99 (£152.74)
• Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L Intel P31 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £42.99 (£50.51)
• Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £27.99 (£32.89)
• Sharkoon Rush Mouse £15.99 (£18.79)
• Boogie Bug AimB.Pad XL £9.99 (£11.74)

Total : £562.72

Any thoughts appreciated. Will buy it tonight then.

tia

 

[helmutcheese]

Looks ok if your PSU is modern and up to it.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Looks good. You won/'t be able to overclock it, so the AC Freezer will do the job just fine.

Remember you'll need a 64-bit OS for it, be it XP, Vista, or something else.

 

[KWJay]

Are you planning on running Vista or XP mate? If XP personally i'd drop down to 2 gig and get some quicker memory and change the Freezer 7 for either the TRU-120 Extreme or Tunique Tower. The Freezer is a good cooler, but apparently spends a lot of its time at nearly full pelt on a quad core and it can be noisey when it gets going. Other than that, nice build!

 

[KWJay]

LOL! we going head2head today Billy?

 

[The_Biggles]

Tnx for the OS advice. Totally forgot about the 64 bit OS. In that case i'll def go for Vista. About time i gave it a serious go.

Quiet is important (hence the non-OC board) so will swap that cooler around now.

Tnx both of you. Now play nice

 

[KWJay]

If you're not going to clock it Biggles then i should think the Freezer is gonna be fine, the quads are relatively cool when at stock. There's no need to spend more than you have to so i'd say stick with the Freezer and set the cpu fan spin-up in the bios to about 55-60c that should keep it quiet and cool unless you're really doing some hard processing!

 

[The_Biggles]

It's not a massive jump in price so will stick with it. Both have good reviews. Added some bits. Getting pricey :-s

Anyhoo, ordering that now. Tnx again all.

 

[KWJay]

cool, whats your final spec gonna be mate?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Is Vista is your bag, I recommend Home Premium 64-bit.

 

[KWJay]

I'm with you there Billy, I dual boot both XP and Vista Ultimate 32bit and am increasingly leaning towards using Vista more as it just seems more pleasant to use. I was going to go for Home Premium, but managed to get full retail Ultimate for £150 so couldn't say no really! And i do love Dreamscene!