Critique a new build....

[TheRapture]

This customer will not be gaming.....much....but the rig WILL be used for DVD ripping, encoding, content creation, and moderately heavy office apps....it needs to be fast and reliable, so NO OVERCLOCKING....and no striped drives....

Here is the list:

 

[J Macker]

looks good to me.
But if he's not gaming, a regular 6600 or something less would suit him just fine.

if you'd like to keep his options open in the future, I'd try to get a dual-DVI card. two monitors is VERY handy for people doing a lot of multi-tasking.

perhaps the POWERCOLOR X1300256MB Radeon X1300 256MB for $89
I might venture to say that the 256mb of onboard ram for the vid-card would be useful for content-creation and hi-res images.

 

[synergyo1]

Switch out the DiamondMax10s for the MaxLine equivalent. Same drive, "better" reliability, same cost but 2 years of extra warranty.

 

[devman]

Sonata II is a great case, the Antec tricool fan is very very quiet if you set it to Low. I love my Sonata II, comes with a rather good PSU as well.

 

[TheRapture]

Thanks guys for the replies, that 6600GT I picked initially is dual DVI....

Can't wait to build this rig, should be pretty nice....