A build for my housemate

[duke]

Built up this system for my housemate who wanted some beef for close to £500

Spec:

ASUS P5B Socket 775

Intel Core 2 Duo E6320

2GB Corsair DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2

Zalman CNPS9500 CPU Cooler

WD5000AAKS 500GB SATAII

GeForce 7600 GS 256MB DDR2 PCI-E

Black/Silver Wizard Budget Case

Vista Home Premium x64

He doesn't really play games on it and mainly needs it for video editing and the like so I haven't really gone to town and got anything amazing, although its definately got some grunt behind it!

Biiiiiig 25cm case intake fan for maximum cold air overload surprisingly silent

Front view to show those flappy bits that a lot of cases seem to have these days:

Zalman CPU fan, one of the best air cooling solutions available (imo):

Overall pic, with the front USB cables unplugged for some reason:

 

[Yeungster]

Nice. How come you opted for Vista x64?

Not saying there's anything wrong with it, but will your flat mate have issues with his video editing software / hardware?

 

[duke]

Fair point, although Premier Pro CS3 natively supports Vista. The only hardware he really uses is his camera, which has FireWire 1394 connectivity. I don't believe he will run into any problems when using this either. Unless you know something I don't?

 

[!TIMMY!]

I like the 25cm fan! Its massive!

 

[maz1989]

probably wont be any problems but cs3 was designed for windows 32bit edition..

 

[duke]

yeah true, though its all up and running now!

While Adobe Creative Suite 3 software is natively 32-bit, these applications will run on 64-bit versions of Windows Vista

 

[maz1989]

cs3 works fine on vista 64? wat about xp64?

i really wanna buy a new pc with 4gb of ram for editing and a q6600, not sure whether to wait for the quad penryn's tho.