How is this setup?

SuperBeast

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I am planning on building a brand new PC in the next month or two, and I have chosen these parts to put into it:

Case - Xion II
CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad
Video Card - nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX
Sound Card - Sound Blaster Audigy SE
RAM - OCZ (2 Gigs)
Monitor - Acer
Keyboard - Microsoft Keyboard
Motherboard - EVGA nForce 680i SLI
Media Drive - LG SuperMulti Drive
Hard-Drive - Seagate Barracuda 750 GB
Hard-Drive Cable - Cables To Go
Thermal Paste - Arctic Silver 5

So that's basically what I have so far, what I am asking for is, are all these parts compatible with each other and are there any recommended parts I should put in in place of something on this list? Also am I missing anything that i might need, kind of like how since the hard-drive is OEM I needed to buy a separate serial ata cable. Another thing I am a bit worried about is the cooling, will the stock fans on the CPU and the GPU be fine or should I buy a different cooler for them? Thanks in advance to anyone who lends their opinion to this!

EDIT: If it helps I want to dual boot Vista Ultimate and Ubuntu on that hard-drive
500 GB - Vista
300 GB - Ubuntu
50 GB - Backup Partition
 

Fraggable

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Jul 20, 2005
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Sure it will all work together, but you're nuts to spend $750 on a CPU that will be $266 within a few weeks/months. I'd say get a E4300 or something to hold you over till the Q6600 drops.

Also, I'd recommend 4GB of RAM as cheap as its gotten recently. Check Hot Deals for some 4GB kits under $200.

Oh and 500+300+50=850GB hard drive.

I'd go with a 74 or 150GB Raptor OS drive and a 400 or 500GB program and storage drive with your 200GB Ubuntu partition. Get an external backup drive or some 80GB internal drive. Doesn't make sense to back stuff up to the same drive.