New Computer - Advice

[[TC]»Elmo«]

Good quality thermal compound (ie Arctic Silver 5) will improve the cooling performance over a pad and will usually last longer. How much will depend on how cheap the original paste/pad is. You really want to replace the compound after 2-3 years anyway but especially for pads as they often dry out.
You probably won't need anything better than the stock cooler unless you're going to overclock or run it in hot ambient conditions - the intel *K processors can overclock if you want them to.

Make sure you disable the onboard sound in the BIOS - you don't want to get a VIA driver near your system if you can avoid it.

60GB SSD may well be too small. You're not going to be able to install many programs on it, and certainly no big games - Windows tends to use quite a lot of space after a while. Last calculation I did came up with 80GB to be comfortable for 64bit Windows 7. With only 60, you're probably going to have to be careful with disk usage.


Aside from that, looks good.