ordering tomorrow

[vanthus]

Altered a few things after advice given.have my reasons for getting windows7 pro,blue ray drive & sound card.any more advice on other components will still be very much appreciated(i think)Will it matter what optical device i put first?
COOLERMASTER CM690 MKII ADVANCED CASE + 2 FRONT USB
Processor (CPU)
AMD PHENOM II X4 970 (3.50GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3) - BLACK EDITION
Motherboard
ASUS® M4A87TD/USB3: DUAL DDR3,SATA 6.0GB/s, USB 3.0
Memory (RAM)
4GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 2GB)
Graphics Card
1GB ATI RADEON™ HD 5870 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD10EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD10EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
10x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW (£89)
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc)
Power Supply & Case Cooling
CORSAIR 650W PSU (TX650) 80+ ULTRA QUIET (£76)
Processor Cooling
TITAN FENRIR EXTREME DIRECT TOUCH COPPER CPU COOLER (£39)
Sound Card
Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Titanium PCI Express (£66)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Firewire & Video Editing
3 Port IEEE 1394a Firewire PCI Card (£9)
TV Card
HAUPPAUGE HI-DEF SATELITTE DVB-S2 TV RECIEVER (WinTV-NOVA-HD-S2)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£108)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Keyboard & Mouse
Logitech® Internet 350 USB Keyboard (£9)
Mouse
Logitech® MX™518 Optical Gaming Mouse (£29)
Speakers
LOGITECH Z323 2.1 Stereo speakers with Rich bass and 360-degree sound (£39)
Headsets (VOIP)
Logitech® PC Headset 860 Stereo with in-line volume control (£15)
Surge Protection
Belkin 8-Socket 2M SurgeMaster with £175,000 Protection Warranty! (£18)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 12 working days
Quantity


Price: £1,436.00 including VAT and delivery.

 

[Gorman]

No i like this, very well thought out. Doesnt matter which order the optical drives are in.

Some would moan that the Green drive is no good for a system drive as it spins down a lot in power saving mode, ignore them.

 

[vanthus]

Still,you got me thinking.1TB caviar black doesnt seem much more expensive.

 

[Gorman]

hahaha

 

[vanthus]

I sense a bit of sadistic schadenfreude from you guys.

 

[Phoenix]

How about 1 of each ?
Looks like a good build though; the only thing you should consider is whether or not you plan on adding another 5870 to crossfire in the future. If you do want to be able to get another change the power supply to something higher but if you're not too bothered just leave it at 650w.

 

[vanthus]

How about 1 of each ?
Looks like a good build though; the only thing you should consider is whether or not you plan on adding another 5870 to crossfire in the future. If you do want to be able to get another change the power supply to something higher but if you're not too bothered just leave it at 650w.

Yes, im going for the black for 1st hard drive,the green for 2nd.Not bothered about adding much on in future except maybe ram.Im not an extreme gamer by any means,just wanted a good rig to last a while.I was just looking at some gaming forums earlier,it would drive me insane trying to keep up with latest games not to mention needing a money tree in the back garden.

 

[Sleinous]

Still,you got me thinking.1TB caviar black doesnt seem much more expensive.

But makes next to NO difference in performance and costs u more in power. The 6gbs drives only give you a TINY performance increase in a couple of rare read/write operations. 6gbs really was designed for solid state drives. The mechanical drives just dont reach a high enough rpm count to make use of the extra bandwidth.

 

[vanthus]

I dont doubt the knowledge of you guys, ive learned a lot here in the last 2 or 3 weeks & ive been messing with pcs for about 15 years.thing is getting conflicting advice from other sites eg.tomshardware.(The green drives are not considered good "Primary" drives due to the fact they will drop to 5400 rpm from 7200 rpm depending on workload. It takes time for them to spin backup to 7200.)
Also from same site about partitioning OS.(Generally, 30-50 GB are more than enough for any OS,
plus a smaller Windows C: partition will also result in
"short strokes" of the read/write armature.)
Thats not enough space for programs i would install, as most advice points to using the rest of the partitions & drives for data only,but ive installed many programs on a second hard drive with no problems.