Thoughts on my first homebuilt please?

[Renegade14]

If you guys could give me your thoughts on this build or any modifications you would make I would appricate it. I heard my CPU I got mixed with the board I got likes to run hot so I looked in to a replacement heatsink and fan. This computer is going to be my gaming machine and yes.. I want it running the top **** the best it can... Excluding Crisis. Farcry 2 ect ect. I saw benchmarks for a similar build to this computer running most of them very very high FPS maxed out. Please let me know your feedback... This is going to be my first machine I will have built by myself. I finally have the money (GO IRAQ!) Total price came to 2741.

I threw this post together a few minutes before work so I am sorry for the sloppyness... Usually not my style.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts and input.


CD/DVD Drive: $22.99
LITE-ON Black 16X DVD-ROM 52X CD-R 32X CD-RW 52X CD-ROM SATA Combo - OEM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106100
Case: 149.99
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 RC-932-KKN1-GP Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119160
Harddrive: 119.99
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284
Monitor: 169.99
Acer X223Wbd Black 22" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 2500:1 - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009145

Video cards (2): 999.99
XFX GX295NHHFF GeForce GTX 295 1792MB 896 (448 x 2)-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150333
Power Supply: 269.99
CORSAIR CMPSU-1000HX 1000W ATX12V 2.2 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139007

RAM: 229.00
CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145224

Motherboard: 299.00
EVGA 132-BL-E758-A1 LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188039

Proc: 294.00
Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor -
Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202

OS: Vista Home 32-bit
104.99

Additonal cooling/Heatsink fan: 63.99
ZALMAN CNPS9700 LED 110mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118019
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118045

 

[s3k3r]

Vista 64 is better but it isnt MUCH of a diffrence... You should wait for windows 7 and see how thats come out. I wouldnt change anything else.Its good that you have aditionall cooling since quad cores give alot of heat. Btw Thats gonna be a monster!!