Does this all fit in toghther?

[stickroad]

Hows this Setup:

Operating System - Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit £78.71 inc VAT - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SW-037-MS

CPU - Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 £211.49 inc VAT - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-128-IN

CPU Cooler + Heatsink - Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro £16.44 inc VAT http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-017-AR

Thermal Paste - Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound £7.04 inc VAT - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=AC-000-AC

Motherboard - Asus P5B Deluxe (Socket 775) £123.36 inc VAT http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-150-AS

Memory - CellShock 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 £223.24 inc VAT - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-000-CK

Graphics Card - BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 £397.14 inc VAT - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-035-BG

Hard Drive - Western Digital Raptor X 150GB 10,000RPM £157.44 inc VAT http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-073-WD

Optical Drive - Asus DRW-1612BL 16x16 DVD±RW £23.49 inc VAT http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-026-AS

Secondary Opitcal Drive - Sony AW-G170AB2 18x DVD±RW £19.96 inc VAT http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-054-SO

Floppy Drive - Sony Floppy Drive £5.86 inc VAT http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-001-OK

Case - Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium £58.74 inc VAT http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-054-LL

Fan Controller - Akasa AK FC-03 Fan Controller Pro £29.32 inc VAT http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=OA-002-AK

Extra Fan - Zalman ZM-F1 80mm Silent Case Fan http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-000-ZA

Power Supply - Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular £99.86 inc VAT - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-004-CS

Total : £1,527.76

 

[hUMANbEATbOX]

looks good to me, but that mobo has matrix raid, you may want a matching set of HD's to take advantage of that.

 

[stickroad]

Ah i see

Size or Brand wise?

 

[Albaholic]

Since you're buying everything new. I don't see any reason to not get identical drives.

 

[hUMANbEATbOX]

Ah i see

Size or Brand wise?

size and brand wise. see here for info on matrix raid: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=467848&highlight=matrix+raid

 

[stickroad]

I think i will stick with the one Raptor at the moment.

150GB will last me quite a while, then by the time it has 20-30gb left iw ill be able to afford another Raptor drive

 

[hUMANbEATbOX]

the advantage of matrix raid is speed, not size.

but no, its not required. i know i would have it on my list tho, if i was going all out (as it seems you are).

 

[stickroad]

Which sort of Raid is matrix Raid will it be Raid 0, RAID 1, RAID 2, RAID 3 etc......

And for instance if i had one Raptor Drive and then two Seagate drives and they were set in matrix Raid what would be faster?

Ive never really encountered RAID or even try to set it up.

But when i get my new PC i will do it just looking at a few sticky s now

I dont like the Idea that in Matrix Raid if one Hard Disk gets corrupted that the other one has a chance of losing data aswell? so the whole Array will fail?