New PC - Comments and Suggestions please

[tom_gymrat]

Hiya, ok my second post. I'm planning on buying the parts for a new PC this weekend and I would like any suggestions or comments pleaseeee :D

ATX MIDI TOWER - AL-03-BB - 25cm Side Fan, 500W PSU, Black and siver adjustable speed fan to side, security door Front Led Fan £51.00 £51.00
ASUS 1608P3S 16x DVDRW/RAM Beige Dual Layer / 8x DVD-RAM / Retail Boxed / DVD Movie Factory 4 SE / Nero v6.6.0.14d :. £22.50 £22.50
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 OEM 2x 1.86 2Mb 1066 MHz LGA775 £102.95 £102.95
Speeze ChillMax Copper Heatpipe 3.6Ghz Socket 775 £15.00 £15.00
Connect3D Radeon X1650 PRO 512MB GDDR2 VGA + DVI-I + TV PART# 3068 £79.95 £79.95
74GB Western Digital Raptor 10K £91.95 £91.95
Crucial 1GB DDR2 PC6400 240-PIN CT12864AA80E £106.95 £106.95
19\" Acer Widescreen TFT AL1916WS £118.95 £118.95
Abit AB9 PRO i965 Socket 775 PCI-E / 7.1CH HD AUDIO / DUAL CH DDR2 / DUAL Gb LAN / FIRE WIRE / ATX MOTHERBOARD £90.95 £90.95

Subtotal :
VAT : £680.20
£119.06 Total : £799.26 inc VAT

Thanks a lot!

[pbest1]

looks good, though I would swap the dvd drive for a black one to match the case (its cheaper too)

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=24179

PB

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[Anonymous]

I agree, the new Hans G monitors are amazing.

[Barley]

Are you planning on playing many new PC games on the system? If so, you'll probably be best of investing more in the graphics card :)

[mac124]

Agreed don't waste your money on a raptor, for the money they are low on storage space high on noise and totally over rated. I know a few people who have them and they beat me onto the games servers by maybe 10 seconds, whoop de doo :roll: and windows loads maybe 15 seconds quicker whoop de doo dah if you are that pushed for time then fine spend best part of £100 on a teeny tiny 74gb hdd want my opinion buy a 250gb sata drive for around half the price and get a better gfx card.

Other than that, nice rig mate 8)

[tom_gymrat]

Hans G eh? Well thanks for that I'll certainly buy that instead.

As for 2gb memory, I think I'll buy 1 gb for now and then depending on my money I'll upgrade.

As for the graphics card, I'm going to wait until the directx 10 graphics cards come out next year before I buy a very expensive one.

This PC will be mainly for gaming yea :D Thanks for all your help guys and thanks for noticing I chose the 800mhz bus speed to go with the core 2 duo, so many people forget about bus speeds and forget to match them up.