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New Build, Best Bang for Buck?

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Well I have been planning on building a new gaming PC for a while and I think I've decided on the best bang for buck gaming PC for around €1000/$1600/£800. Here is what I've come up with (with a lot of help of course!):

Case: Antec Solo
PSU: Corsair HX620W
Monitor: Samsung 226CW
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R
CPU: Core 2 Quad Q6600 Boxed
Graphics Card: HIS HD 4850, GDDR3 512MB, ATI Radeon HD4850
Memory: 4096MB-Kit GEIL Black Dragon PC2-6400 DDR2-800 CL4
Hard Drive: WD Caviar 640GB
Disk Drive: LG GH22LP20
OS: Microsoft Vista 64 Home Premium
Cooler: Arctic Freezer 7 Pro


I am planning on ordering this today, so if I need to change something, can you please let me know? I have been shopping around for a while now, trying to get the best bang for buck rig, constantly changing parts.

So if anyone has any advice, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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That is a solid build. The only nit worth picking is that if you buy an OEM optical drive, you won't get software with it, including a decoder needed to watch movies. A Retail version won't cost much more ($5-$7?) but will include the software.

If you ever want to crossfire, you might want to spend a few extra bucks and get an X38 mobo. X38 = 2-16X PCIe.

Otherwise good build. Fine for single video card.

I would suggest that if this is strictly a gaming rig you consider the E7200. This is the current budget OCing champ and rivals E8400 and E8500s OCing performance. the smaller cache doesn't hurt gaming performance.
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You might want a certified PSU:

ATI Radeon HD 4850 System Requirements

450 Watt or greater power supply with 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express® power connector recommended (550 Watt and two 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode)
Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products.

If you do decide to stay with the q6600, (or actually this applies to any processor you get) try to get a OEM version. When you say "boxed" I'm assuming that means your looking a buying it retail.

The reason you should try to get a OEM CPU is that they normally have lower VID's compared to ones bought boxed. Thus this makes the OEM's overclock better and stay cooler when overclocked.

Onus said:
That is a solid build. The only nit worth picking is that if you buy an OEM optical drive, you won't get software with it, including a decoder needed to watch movies. A Retail version won't cost much more ($5-$7?) but will include the software.


Well I checked the retail version, and for some reason it's cheaper. Go figure...

And regarding certified PSU's, the one I have is certified if I'm not mistaken....

And whats this about Crossfire anyways? I know it's two graphics cards and all that, but is it really that much better? And will my computer not be able to support it?

Thanks.
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