New Spec PC

[Roady]

Hi all

Take a look at my latest proposal new spec PC, my budget is about £1000. What do you think of spec?
Can you see any problems with incompatibility with any of the devices?

You think I can get the parts cheaper? if so where? (Prices inc. UK VAT)

Graphic card
Asus Extreme 8800GTX 768MB PCI-E £ 247.87
Case
Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570S GZ-FA1CB-AJB (Black) £ 82.19
Processor
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz 95W G0 Stepping (Retail 775) £ 154.97
Memory
Patriot 4GB PC2-6400 C4 Extreme Performance (2x2GB) £ 82.19
Motherboard
ASUS P5N-T nForce 780i Socket 775 £ 156.22
Hard drives
2 x 150GB Western Digital Raptor SATA 16MB £ 119.79
500GB Maxtor - 32MB - SATA2 - 7200RPM £ 58.69
Power supply
Cooler Master Real Power Pro 700W Modular £ 90.18

Im thinking of upgrading the cooling fan on the Retail CPU so might buy the OEM version and get Zalman fan.

Thanks to all that respond

[George Hallam]

Look all good just a few thoughts

here is a cheaper 8800Gtx
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-099-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=877

But why not get 2 x 8800Gt (extra £40 more but get rid of one raptor)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-038-EA&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1008

A zalman fan will be good if you plan on OC'ing the 9700 is good

[Roady]

Hey thanks for them links!

Why do you think I should drop a Raptor? as I was thinking of using RAID 0 on them for super fast read\write access.

Any Zalman fan in particular??

Thanks

[George Hallam]

Im no pro on HDD (leave that to pual) there is a substantial difference but whats more important graphical power or game/OS load up time (we only talking a matter of seconds here)... i think graphics :p

The 9700 is good

either the

BLACK and GREEN (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-027-ZA&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=821)

or

ORANGE and BLUE (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-026-ZA&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=821)

[Paul Komski]

2 x 150GB Western Digital Raptor SATA 16MB £ 119.79

Presumably that is 119.79 each.

Nothing wrong with the HDD choices and the board supports RAID via NVIDIA MediaShield™ should that ever be wanted.

[Roady]

Yeah that is each (£119 = £238 total) and the board does support Raid.

Whats the nVidia Shield? will I need this support?

i need a good balance of good boot up time and gaming really, any ideas how to acheive this.

Thanks

[Paul Komski]

Whats the nVidia Shield? will I need this support?
Its the software component for controlling any RAID arrays that are created. It's only needed if you want to create an array.