Are my current specs okay

Charlie, is this a trick question? You've got the latest hardware there!

For others, these are the specs:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz

Clock Speed: 3502 MHz

Motherboard: ASUSTeK SABERTOOTH P67

BIOS :2001 - _VerbatimSTORE N GO 5.00 (20110920)

System RAM: 16360 MB (1600 MHz)

Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

Hard drive(s): 1000GB ST31000524AS ATA Device

Hard drive(s): 32GB Verbatim STORE N GO USB Device

Optical drive(s): ASUS DRW-1814BLT ATA Device

Optical drive(s): ASUS DRW-1814BLT

Sound card(s): NVIDIA High Definition Audio

Sound card(s): Realtek High Definition Audio

Sound card(s): NVIDIA High Definition Audio

Sound card(s): NVIDIA High Definition Audio

Sound card(s): NVIDIA High Definition Audio

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (64-bit)

Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor

In all seriousness, you're really asking the wrong question.

Of course your specs could be improved - if you're willing to spend another $2000 on your system, I'm sure I could find ways to improve it.

But really, you should be asking could your system be improved on a budget of $XXXX? And given I've no idea how much you've spent, I can't really answer that question either.

What's prompted the concern? I can't imagine the system is slow at doing anything. What applications are you trying to run? Sorry, but it's a little bit like saying "I've built a three-bedroom house - could I have built a better one?"

I'm not meaning any offense, it's just you're asking the wrong question and not giving me enough info to answer the right one.

Cheers, Darren.

Sorry I know its not slow but it was my first PC upgrade that I have ever done, I had in mind to build a ultimate PC for as cheap as I can which was upgraded 2 months ago, been the first time upgrading to a high end PC I was not sure if i was making the right choices in choosing high end hardware and also if I had spent to much money of $1,700

Maybe a little. I don't think you're going to run out of RAM any time soon, put it that way... :) But really, for a first-up effort, that's not bad.

I probably would have gone for the Core i5 2500K, which gives you almost the same thing as the i7 2600 but for a lot less cash.

That, and the RAM, look to be the only two places where you've gone a little overboard. You also seem to have two optical drives - I guess you know why you've done that. I would've probably just stuck with Windows 7 Home Premium as I don't think Ultimate adds that much more.

Still, for a first-up effort at doing it yourself, it gets full marks for effort.

Cheers, Darren.