Im trying to get the most out of £1500 for a friend. He mainly plays EvE and COD4. Hed also like it as silent as possible (within budget). This is what I have so far:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3GHz Retail Boxed Processor    -           £159.99
Seems to be the top one before the price jump - will this be a bottleneck? Any benefit or Quad core at lower clock speeds?

Cooler: Akasa AK-925 Revo, Dual Fluid ThermoDynamic Cooler    -    £41.13  
Silent and effective

CASE: NZXT Hush Black Silent Case    -   £61.09
Silent and good looking for a reasonable price tag

RAM: OCZ 4GB Kit (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory    -    £70.72
Amazing value, 2x2Gb to leave room for expansion.

HDD: Two Samsung SpinPoint HD501LJ 500GB SATAII Hard Drives       -      £117.36
To go in a RAID 0 array for the OS - storage will be external where needed

GFX: Two Nvidia 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 Dual DVI PCI-E Graphics Cards     -    £559.99
Lowest price 8800GTXs I could find. Any reason I should try and save £ to get more costly brands?

MB: UPDATEDAsus STRIKER EXTREME 680I Motherboard      -    £171.79
Pretty costy but seems to be one of the top performing SLI boards - Cheers to Walrus for the pointer

Optical: Optiarc AD-7200S DVD±RW/DL/RAM Internal SATA Bare Black Drive      -     £15.44
Cheap and Chearful - any such thing as a silend DVD drive?

PSU: ZM750-HP Dual Heatpipe Cooled 750W Modular PSU    -    £99.99
Quiet and hopefully sufficient

Monitor: Acer AL2416WB 24" TFT Monitor Widescreen 1920x1200    -    £200.05
Cheapest 24" monitor. Can 1920x1200 do full 1080 HD - can never remember

PhysX: BFG Ageia PhysX Accelerator Retail box    -    £94.55
Hed like a PhysX card - it is really worth it of will the real life gain by better spend elsewhere - CPU/GPU? Do any game actually support this?


Total: £1499.74

Any comments appriciated. He would like it to be watercooled too but imo its too costly.

EDIT: Also apologies for it not being priced on Tekheads - I was doing it there but the lack of 8800GTXs < £280 shifted me over.

Doh! Thats was a pretty major obmission! Ive changed the MB and PSU (to stay within price).

I would drop the physics card and put the money towards a better monitor.

That acer monitor does not even have DVI and its a little ugly

Monitor Samsung 226BW  Reviewed as the best 22" on the market at the moment.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/125099

At the very least dont go for some cheap brand.  It makes a big difference.

Dont bother with a Physix card.  I personally think they will prove redundant even before games developers start taking advantage of them.  Properly using multi-core processors will achieve teh same goal.

Dont bother getting a PhysX card:
http://kotaku.com/352495/nvidia-buying-ageia-for-bouncy-physx-tech

Itll probably be included in a driver update, letting you do physics on one of your GPUs.