Any Comments Please Folks - New Build

[Pob255]

was speaking to a mate, do you think the 520w will be enough juice?

Yes, Yes and Yes again
I'm pritty sure we've got some people on here powering far more than this on a hx520

EDIT: only reason I'm useing a 700w psu is because I got it in a halfprice sale

is that bar supporting the heatsink something improvised? not seen it with the case or heatsink

It look like it, but it's not needed, the thermalright ultra-120extream does fit in the p182 with about 2mm to spare (from the side pannel) it's a tight fit but it does.
Depending on how confident at building pc's you are it might be best to advoid this one it is large and heavy but a very good cooler.

While Nocturnal fans are good the added air flow over other half decent fans is not massive and personally I don't think the additional money is worth it.
They are nearly twice the price of the sharkoon golfballs and not twice the performance.
Main thing to remember about fans are:
Speed = airflow = noise
larger = more air for same speed
I'd advoid really cheap fans as they tend to be rather unballenced which generate a lot of vibration and that tends to make them noisey.

[mad_scot_99]

Cheers, im ok at building machines so I should jsut get away with it, no specced one for ages but finally got some cash together :-)

Cool the 520w it is then. :-)

[Bounty_Bam]

was speaking to a mate, do you think the 520w will be enough juice?

definatley... tis what I use too

[mad_scot_99]

Cool, cheers folks, jsut waiting on the parts to come into stock then get them ordered :-)

[Pob255]

Ther you go, Bounty_Bam has got a pritty simular spec

[Thorsson]

Another HX520 user here. No problemos.

[mad_scot_99]

Does anyone know of anybody using the Asus P5K Premium coupled with the Thermaltake 120 and the reaper ram from OCZ, or will i need to ditch the reaper stuff?

[mad_scot_99]

Bit concerend about the heatspreaders at the top of theRAM sticks, anyone vouch for them?

[Thorsson]

I would be concerned too. I really don't know why you would want them. They're almost certain to get in the way of something and PC8500 is plenty fast enough anyway. Their only point is e-peen.

[staffsMike]

yup I wouldn't bother. Get some gskill stuff, that runs at those speeds but uses standard heat spreaders.

[mad_scot_99]

Found a 4GB G.Skill kit from overclockers : Think this would be a suitable replacement?

G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PK PC2-8500C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK)

Or are there other alternatives I should look out for? Scan seem to push Corsair quite strongly

[Thorsson]

The GSkill was the best value when I looked last week.

[mad_scot_99]

Cheers

[mad_scot_99]

Cheers, realistically though is 1066 RAm worth it if im aiming for say 3.2 Ghz on the Q6600?

[Thorsson]

In one word, no.

[mad_scot_99]

What would the realistic recommendation be? 800Mhz?