Hi, I'm a bit of a noob but recently found how much cheaper it is to build a PC how you want it!!

Haven't built a PC before but will be building one for the lounge using a 42" LCD.

Please can you tell me if all of these parts will work with each other / fit together / all fit inside that case!!
I need a sideways sitting tower 18cm max height so it can slide under the tv on a shelf!
And also can I get a good overclock from this setup?

The specs as follows:

Processor
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz £83.00
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145258 (1066MHz) Socket 775 3MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed

Motherboard
Asus P5KPL-AM iG31 £35.31
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148094 Socket 775 onboard VGA 8 channel audio mATX Motherboard

Hard Drive Seagate ST3500320AS 500GB £43.59
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130826 SATA II 7200rpm 32MB Cache OEM

RAM
OCZ 2x 2GB DDR2 800MHz £19.30 each (£38.60 total)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142376 PC2-6400 CL 5-6-6-15 Value Series with Lifetime Warranty

CD Drive
LG Lightscribe 20X DVDRW £13.95
eBay Shop - http://stores.ebay.co.uk/MediaWales-Computer-Components

Graphics
Sapphire HD 3450 512MB DDR2 £29.63
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147560 VGA DVI HDTV-Out PCI-E Graphics Card

PSU
Antec EarthWatts 380W £33.02
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/120375 80%+ Efficiency PSU - 80mm Fan 4x SATA PCI-E

Sound Card
Creative Sound Blaster 7.1 £18.57
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/98938 Audigy SE OEM PCI Soundcard


OS
Vista Home Basic 64 Bit £53.58
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/123051 64-bit -SP1- Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD -

Cooling
Scythe Ninja II CPU Cooler £26.32
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148075 120mm fan - 20.5 decibels - airflow 52.9CFM

Wireless Card
Edimax EW-7728IN 300MBps £17.99
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/3475306/E ... oduct.html

Case
ATX Desktop Case Black Opera £39.98
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/125291 Extra Value with 500W PSU (psu that i probably wont use) (20+4 pin)

TOTAL COST £433.54 !

Unless i need to buy anything to put it all together with???

p.s! please shoutout if you can advise me of anyway of making it cheaper!!??

If you are wanting to use media center, i would have Vista Home Prem, because Basic does not include the "Media Center"

I would be tempted by a bigger hard drive if you intend to make a lot of recordings. haven't had time to read over the complete spec yet. I'd be a bit tempted by a blueray drive in that setup as they are only £70 ish atm.

The newer core2duo's overclock well and with fairly little tweaking involved.

I would look at the onboard graphics that support HD decode - that might mean you'll have to use an AMD but it would be worth it IMO. Also the newer X2 cores are low power. As HD is the most processor intensive thing you'll probably do on a media center, having a little less CPU power doesn't matter if it means offloading HD decode/encode.

There's also a recent thread on the new Atom based motherboards (search tool is your friend) which look good for a media PC.

Guys how (providing he can afford it) about say 200gb main drive and 1Tb media storage drive? And yes the new Atom cpu's seem to be doing rather well.