Hi,
I am planning on building a new rig sometime within the next month, and have been doing my research for the past 2 weeks and have come up with the following list of components
MSI P35 Platinum Motherboard
A Quad Core Intel CPU?
Arctic Freezer 7 Pro
Antec P182 Case
Hiper 580W or OCZ 600W Stealth?
Samsung Spinpoint 500GB
4 X1 GB XMS 6400 Ram
Samsung SH-S203 SATA DVD Writer
9600 GT Graphics Card?
Windows Vista Home (32 or 64)?
Office Home and Student 2007
Samsung SM226BW Monitor
The rig will be mainly used for encoding DVD's for use on portable devices and the odd spot of gaming.
I would appreciate people thought on my selections and indeed any recommendations which would be a better choice for some components. My main dilemma's are around the choice of CPU, do I get a Q6600 or wait for the Q9300 (over clocking is not my main concern), the make of 9600 card and whether I should go with a 64 bit version of Windows or not.
Any thoughts/comments/suggestion would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
Minimos