A little help with a new Build

[Rambel]

I will be using this mostly for Gaming but will also be doing a lot of Photo and Movie editing.

I already have a 22" westinghouse monitor. corsair HX620 Power supply a core 2 duo 2.4 ghz cpu , Radeon HD4850 GPU.

What am looking for is a stable MB (Intell) that will OC good and have a good on board sound chip that work good with Vista bit, but don't want to spend any more than I have to on it.

A Case that has real good air flow and big enough for the tall CPU coolers, but I don't want to spend the money for a Lan LI.

CPU the one I had would not over clock very good at all so looking to get either a 3.0 ghz dual core or a quad core still not sure which way I should go there.

looking for a Good keyboard to that is not huge.

Last item I need is a good reliable boot hard drive.

Will be running windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit and will have 4 gigs of ram.

My last build didn't last long not sure if it was a bad MB or the hard drives I used from a previous build. I got a little frustrated when it started having problems and then bought a IMac but wanting to go back to windows for games.

 

[Roguestar]

Read the stickies at the top of the forum for some ideas. Give us a couple of suggestions to bounce around and we'll give you more feedback.

Suggestions: E8400CPU, P35 motherboard.

 

[Rambel]

Thank I read the sticky on suggested parts but the Info I was looking for wasn't really there IE a MN that OC good, very reliable, and had on board audio that worked good with vista 64 bit. It covered over clocking good and price range.
Didn't see any thing on keyboards.
I saw Hard drives but they were to big for a boot drive.
I think I saw the case that would work it was listed as a mid range case that had good air flow.

I see were you suggested a E8400 CPU and a P-35 MB. I was leaning to the E8400 CPU but still have reservations do to there should be more programs and games coming out that take advantage of the quad core's.
On the MB I feel that the MB and the hard drive's were my main problem with my last rig I built. I am at the point need to buy something that will work like it should and be reliable.

Hope this helped to show what I am trying to get.

 

[Rambel]

this is what I was looking at so far but not sure of the CPU and MB.

Case

Boot Drive

memory

MB

CPU

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?
Item=N82E16835186134">CPU COOLER</a>

The Memory may not be good enough for to OC with not sure. MB may not be the most stable or good to OC with. Would of went with the better cpu cooler but not sure it would fit the case. CPU again still considering a quad core.

 

[Roguestar]

FYI if you make it easy for us to get the gist quickly and describe the links as well as linking to the page, it'll mean more people will read and give advice. Having us click through adds hassle that some won't bother with .

Your "boot drive" is incredibly small by today's standards. Why not get the WD 640GB drive for boot and storage? It's very fast.

Case is quite nice.

Memory is fine, should be good for a mild overclock, possibly more.

Motherboard looks good.

CPU is a good choice.

Your cooler link doesn't seem to work, but I recommend this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16835233003
Xigmatek 120mm Rifle Cooler



Edit: If it's any help, I have a motherboard by Gigabyte with very similar on-board audio (the one you picked is a bit newer) and it works fine on Vista x64 and is of very good quality.

 

[Rambel]

OK thanks that was the other cooler i was looking at but wasn't sure it would fit in that case read that it was to big for a lot of case's
and sorry for the way I listed it.