upgrade

SkaarjMaster's picture

I'm updating my rig around Feb/Mar 2009 and was wondering about the ILTK-ACU community thoughts. I'll still be using XP Home, Lian-Li full-tower case, plenty of DVD-RAM/ROM drives, fans, fan controller, Audigy2 OEM sound card, floppy drive, 19" CRT monitor, Logitech Elite keyboard and probably new MX518 mouse (or the old MX500 until it dies). My old system will be 5 years old by then (which is just about now isn't it?). Here is the new stuff I'm thinking about getting (I'll insert links later if requested or if I have time as this thread progresses):

CPU: Intel Core2Duo E8600 Wolfdale (unless not available at order time)
MB: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P (the X48-DS5 disappeared)
HS: Arctic Cooling Freezer XTREME (or Noctua NH-C12P)
RAM: Corsair 4GB(2x2GB) 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM 1066 (PC2 8500) TWIN2X4096-8500C5
VIDEO CARD: Nvidia GTX 280 (1GB) (or a GTX 285 if I so decide)
PSU: Enermax Revolution85+ ERV850EWT 850W
HD: Two (2) Western Digital Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200rom 32MB cache SATA 3.0GB/s
EXTERNAL HD: some SATA type (1 TB of course)
DVD BURNER: Pioneer DVR-216D (only if I decide my BenQ 1655 is too old or it's staying in running old system for now; it's still burning great right now though)

I'm going to be using the system for games, but mostly to see UT3 better and maybe get some more games down the road. That's about the only thing that will stress my system at this point. I believe that does it for now. Any comments/suggestions? Thank you.