Will this work?

[mike0124]

Hi all i`m new here and this is my 1st post so bear with me :)

I would relly appreciate your opinions on this build.

Thermaltake VA8003BWS Armour Super Tower - Black £93.99

EVGA nForce 680i SLi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (122-CK-NF68-A1) £170.36

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 "LGA775 Conroe" 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £199.74

Tuniq Tower 120 Blue LED CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
£31.71

Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA1065) x2 £234.98

EVGA GeForce 8800 Ultra SuperClocked SILENT 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (768-P2-E887-AR) £505.24

Samsung SH-S203BEBN 20x20 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £23.49

Western Digital Raptor 74GB WD740ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM
x2 £185.62

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 5000AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £62.26

Thermaltake ToughPower 1000W Modular Power Supply £164.49

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00715) £66.96

Samsung SM-245B 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £387.74


Logitech G15 Gaming-Grade Illuminated Keyboard - Retail (967599-0120 £55.21

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty 7.1 Champion Series Soundcard - Retail £117.49

Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers - Retail £82.19

Razer DeathAdder Blue 2000dpi High Precision Gaming Mouse - Retail £41.11

Total= £2422.59

What do you think ?

Is it all compatible, have i missed anything,do i need any extra leads, mounting brackets etc or are there other components that would br better suited.
I was thinking the SLI mobo for future doubling up on GPU and the 2 raptors in RAID 0 for OS and games with the 500 Gb for all other stuff.

[George Hallam]

yep that will be fine i take it that you live in the UK here are the prices of some of those items from
http://www.overclockers.co.uk

they are alot cheaper and it is a good site
graphics card http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?&groupid=701&catid=56&subid=877&sortby=priceAsc
save about £80
MOBO
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-000-EA
save about £35
CPU
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-156-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=793
save £30 (with the £200 you had to spend on a CPU you can get a core 2 Quad Q6600)

give the site a look over you could save $$$$$$

[mike0124]

Thanks George. Yes i forgot to mention that i will be shopping with Overclockers
Why would the Quad be better though if its not a dumb question, many thanks

[odannyboy000]

Well, instead of only 2 processors, like a Core 2 Duo, you would have 4 processors. This makes applications faster.

[George Hallam]

i was just reading over what i put last nite (i was tired) the prices i put were EX. VAT just to say. about quad core it will run applications faster (although most programs are still single thread) and you can run more ie Battlefield 2142 + (1 core) + encode a DVD (1 core) + listen to music (part of one core) and you still have loads of space yet