Quiet case and PSU

RuggieBear

Wanna build another media center (but also play fps games) but it's for my bedroom so i'm not that inclined to go for a sff case.

It just needs to be quiet and decent enough looking, so at the moment I'm looking at the Sonata II.

It also comes with a 420 Smart power PSU. Will that be enough for the following components?


Sapphire Ultimate Radeon X1950Pro 256MB GDDR3 Dual DVI TVO

Corsair Memory VS1GSDS533D2 200SODIMM 1GB PC2-4200 CAS4

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Socket 775 1.86GHz

Asus P5B Deluxe (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Anyone any reccomendations?

awhir

420 should last with them but it would be under a good bit of strain.

you gona overclock?? if not i would get a e6400.

RuggieBear

I was thinking of overclocking but probably not until I upgrade the PSU as I didn't think the 420 smartpower would/could take it. I'm thinking get the 6300 and overclock it say in 6 months or a year, when I need to get a bit of extra oomph out of it!

awhir

ya that would be a good idea and ya could also get more ram then too.

RuggieBear

good point. i'll probably try vista as i'm getting a free home premium hopefully and i reckon it'll just eat RAM

TonyM.

OCZ Platinum, 1 GB

Specifically developed for the extreme gamer and overclocker to give high-end Intel based systems an extra performance edge.


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8T8

The 450W PSU that comes with it should be fine for the X1950 Pro.

I'd save a few bucks on the motherboard as well and just get a MSI 965P Neo for £75.

The money saved can go towards 2GB of RAM instead.

awhir

good 1 8t8.

RuggieBear

missing anything obvious?



I have hard drives, tv card, OS, Sound card

8T8

Nope looks good to go.