Building PC, looking for suggestions

[tywheatley]

Using graduation money to buy a new pc, price range is 1k-1300, trying to keep it as low as possible without sacrificing performance, and would like it to last me four years minimum. Any thoughts or suggestiosn would be appreciated.

Case - Silverstone Temjin SST
-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811163030

Motherboard - DFI Infinity 975x
-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813136168

CPU - Intel Core 2 E6300
-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819115005

RAM - Mushkin 1gb 240pinDDR2 pc5300
-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820146438

PSU - Mushkin 550w
-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817812002

Cooling - Thermaltake BigWater 745
-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16835106074

Video Card - xfx Geforce 7900gt 256mb
-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814150150

Hard Drive - WD 250gb sata
-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814150150

Im most interested about thoughts conceringing the water coolign as this is the first time i've used it with anything, not sure how it will fit in the case.b

 

[tywheatley]

BUMP

 

[angry_ducky]

Change the hard drive to THIS.

Change the video card to THIS or THIS.

Otherwise, it looks good.

 

[haywood]

Questions from a noob, but why water cooling unless you are going to OC pretty hard. C2D can OC on air with a good case. With the extra $, go for the E6400 or more RAM.

Otherwise looks good. I will be building shortly and am going with the DFI mobo also. Not a great overclocker until they get a bios update, but good enough for me.

 

[shadowduck]

Questions from a noob, but why water cooling unless you are going to OC pretty hard. C2D can OC on air with a good case. With the extra $, go for the E6400 or more RAM.

Otherwise looks good. I will be building shortly and am going with the DFI mobo also. Not a great overclocker until they get a bios update, but good enough for me.

Agree with 2 of your points and disagree on one.

No point in water cooling unless you want to really overclock or want a "hey i am cooler than you" system.

No reason to get the 6400, the miminal speed increase isnt worth the cost.

Get 2GB of RAM for sure.