What do you think about my build?

mortis_

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Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Conroe 1.86GHz 2M
GIGABYTE GA-965P-S3
SAPPHIRE PCIE RAD X1900XT 256M VIVO BOX
SATA2 250.0 SEAGATE 7200.10 16M
Pioneer Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R...
500W POWER ATX ANTEC BP500U 2.01

I dont realy know wich case i should go for and if 500W is enough. For the ram should i go for 667 or 533 since not thinking about overcloaking? Im looking for 1 gig of ram at a good price.
 

zrawas

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Looks good. That PSU looks good unless you plan on going DX10, then it might be a bit on the down side. If you are considering DX10, go with a 600-700W PSU (the OCZ GameXtreme is my personal preference). For the RAM, there are two cases. If you are not overclocking you CPU, then go with 533 MHz memory like this : Patriot 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 533. If you are overclocking, go with this memory: Patriot 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 . Don't consider higher speed memory since you are not going to get a huge overclock because of you motherboard so 800 MHz memory would be overkill IMO.