PSU and CPU fan.

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Phyruss

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Hi, Im planning on building a system with the below components, but im not sure is the PSU or CPU Fan are up to it. I don't want to spend any more than i have to as the build is already very expensive but i realise that having unreliable or unadequate parts could be costly in the long run. Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

Hard Drives 500 GB Samsung SATA 7200rpm 16MB cache Hard Drive oem + 36.7GB SCSI Seagate/ IBM Cheetah 15K RPM U320 80pin OEM ST336753LC 24P3732
DVD writer x2 Sony Black AW-G170AB2 Dual Layer 18X DVD+/-R/RW 12X DVD RAM Burner OEM
Processor Intel Quad Core QX6700 Extreme 4 x 2.66Ghz 8Mb Cache 1066 FSB Quad Core Processor
Processor Cooling Fan Zalman CNPS9700-NT nVidia Tritium Super Aero Flower Cooler Skt LGA775,AM2,754,939 and 940 + 1x80 mm rear and 1x80mm front fans
Motherboard eVGA 122-CK-NF68 nForce 680i SLI (Socket 775) DDR2 Motherboard
Memory Modules G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-6400CL6D-4GBMQ
Power Supply X-Power 700
Video Card Dual 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 Dual-GPU Graphics Cards, Quad SLI or XFX Geforce 8800GTS 640MB Dual DVI PCI-Express Graphics Card
Sound Card Sound Blaster Audigy SE/7.1 surround sound with EAX support , PCI sound card
OS Vista ultimate
Minitor Samsung SM940BW 19" Widescreen TFT Monitor

Thanx again

Phyruss
ps: I live in England and so newegg.com will not ship to me.
 
The Zalman cpu cooler should be a plus there. That is very close in appearance to the CNS9500 model used here with great results. The X-Power brand of supplies isn't a familiar brand here. I forced to wonder if that makes a "Good" or "Bad" list of makes like the list seen here.

Good:
Akasa PaxPower - Antec(except Smart Power models) - Astec - AOpen - Channel Well - Coolermaster - Enermax
- Enlight - Fortron Source (Sparkle) - HEC - Hi-Power - Jeantech - NSpire - OCZ Technology - PC Power & Cooling - PowerMan
- Seasonic - SilenX - SilverStone - Tagan - TTGI/SuperFlower - Vantec - Zippy / Emacs - Verax - Zalman
- Corsair

Bad:
Allied - Antec Smart Power models(recommend True Power or NeoHE) - Aspire - CoolMax - DEER - EYE-T
- KingStar - L&C - Linkworld - Logisys - PowerMagic - PowerUp - Powmax - Q-Tec - Raidmax - Skyhawk - Star
- Turbolink - Ultra - ThermalTake
 
That PSU is made by HEC, which unfortunately doesn't tell me much. HEC make some good PSUs, but also some pretty terrible ones, and I can't find any internal pics or reviews to judge by. For a system like yours, i'd avoid it though and go with something that's proven to be good.

Units like the Silverstone ST75ZF, PC Power & Cooling 750W, Seasonic M12 700W, OCZ GameXStream 700W or Corsair HX620W would be good choices.

The Zalman CPU cooler will be fine.
 
Zalman and Artic Cooling are the two choice brands to really look over when deciding on cpu cooling. Those two brands both have an edge over ThermalTake while that brand has some good ideas. ceeewi1's one advice on going with a "known" make for the supply holds true here as well. Usually when I hear an odd sounding off name the term "generic" seems to be the first reaction here.
 
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