My first pc build plz help with the compatibly of components plz [=

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Strangeronpcp

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I am a nooby at this so can u help me out. Will all this components work together are they the best in their prise range thank u all hope u can hellp [= the pc is for gaming and cad
MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Dirt3 & Deus Ex PC Games £215.99
(£179.99) £215.99
(£179.99)
Thermaltake Level 10 GT Visionary Full Tower Case - Black £209.99
(£174.99) £209.99
(£174.99)
AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1090T Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail with FREE Deus Ex PC Game £134.99
(£112.49) £134.99
(£112.49)
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 AMD 990X (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £129.98
(£108.32) £129.98
(£108.32)
Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9) £107.99
(£89.99) £107.99
(£89.99)
OCZ ZS Series 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply with FREE Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - PC (Retail) £74.99
(£62.49) £74.99
(£62.49)
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD20EARX) £69.98
(£58.32) £69.98
(£58.32)
Corsair Hydro H60 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/1155/1156/775/AM2/AM3) £62.99
(£52.49) £62.99
(£52.49)
Saitek Cyborg V7 Illuminated Gaming Keyboard £52.99
(£44.16) £52.99
(£44.16)
AMD Green Baseball Cap £1.99
(£1.66) £1.99
(£1.66)
Sub Total : £884.90
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £179.73
Total : £1,078.38
 

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Yep, they'll work together... but it's not really an optimal build.

First of all you can probably save yourself at least 100 quid by swapping out the fancy Thermaltake case for something that still looks good and rates highly on airflow and related heat dissipation issues... lot of people swear by the CoolerMaster HAF series of cases. My personal rule of thumb of cases is to never spend more on the case than on the CPU but that's just me (and the reason I don't have a massive, all metal, 16 bay Lian Li tower).

If you don't plan on overclocking your CPU you're wasting money on the closed loop liquid cooling unit, just go with a good aftermarket HSF instead. If you are planning on overclocking you'd be better off with an Intel i5 2500K or, if your budget stretches enough, an i7 2600K. Naturally that will require a different mobo, but you should be able to find something with similar feature sets for around the same price if you go that route.

I'd toss the 2 TB Caviar Green for a 1 TB Caviar Black (should be identical price)... but that's just my personal biased against using low RPM drives for anything but storage.

If you're not doing engineering physics calculations or animated renderings on your CAD work you might be overRAMmed... but on the other hand MOAR RAM is always good when it doesn't break the budget. Oh yeah, if you're not overclocking 1600MHz is kind of wasted as Phenom II based systems will only support 1333MHz RAM when running at factory settings, so it will downstep the 1600MHz RAM to 1333MHz... Not an issue per se but you can save a few quid going with 1333MHz if that's all your system needs.

Finally, why no optical drive? :p