My First Build

[Gars]

I have been saving and researching for my first build for a couple months now and before I order the parts I thought I would ask a few older and wiser heads to look over my proposed build to make sure that I do not have any major bottlenecks or incompatibilites. (lol,run on sentence)
I will be useing the system for med-high gaming. Thank you for your time and thoughtful responses.

Motherboard - EVGA (LGA 775) NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail $249.99

CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M sharing L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail $309

RAM - CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual $289

Graphics - eVGA 5 7950GT 512MB PCI Express x16 $264.99 $5.64

Hard Drive - Western Digital Caviar RE WD2500YS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM $79.99

Optical Drive - LITE-ON Combo Drive $23.99 $6.13

Power Supply - SILVERSTONE SST-ST75ZF 750W Power Supply 90 - 264 V - Retail $199.99 $9.43

Case - Rosewill R5601-BK 0.8mm SECC Screw-less Dual 120mm Fans ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail $54.99 $17.44

Operating System - Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP2b 1pk w/Upgrade Coupon for Vista - OEM $139.99 $4.99

First amount is cost, second is shipping. All prices are Newegg as of last night.

Parts: $1611.93
Shipping: 43.63
Total: 1655.56

 

[o3vegeta]

Hello,

first of all i would like to say that since i am an ATI fan i would recommend the Sapphire X1950XT it is around the same price but performs slightly better.

with your ram don't go with corsair way overpriced, you can get better and cheaper ram from ocz ( i mean bang for bucks wise)
2048MB-Kit OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Platinum Dual Channel, CL4

and also get an other hard drive. these are faster

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA II NCQ 250GB 16MB ST3250620AS

abouth the case i have a thermaltake armor va8003swa its all aluminium and has very good airflow and is much cheaper ca.170 $

 

[1Tanker]

I have been saving and researching for my first build for a couple months now and before I order the parts I thought I would ask a few older and wiser heads to look over my proposed build to make sure that I do not have any major bottlenecks or incompatibilites. (lol,run on sentence)
I will be useing the system for med-high gaming. Thank you for your time and thoughtful responses.

Motherboard - EVGA (LGA 775) NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail $249.99

CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M sharing L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail $309

RAM - CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual $289

Graphics - eVGA 5 7950GT 512MB PCI Express x16 $264.99 $5.64

Hard Drive - Western Digital Caviar RE WD2500YS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM $79.99

Optical Drive - LITE-ON Combo Drive $23.99 $6.13

Power Supply - SILVERSTONE SST-ST75ZF 750W Power Supply 90 - 264 V - Retail $199.99 $9.43

Case - Rosewill R5601-BK 0.8mm SECC Screw-less Dual 120mm Fans ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail $54.99 $17.44

Operating System - Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP2b 1pk w/Upgrade Coupon for Vista - OEM $139.99 $4.99

First amount is cost, second is shipping. All prices are Newegg as of last night.

Parts: $1611.93
Shipping: 43.63
Total: 1655.56

Everything looks great. Nice choices. The system should rock. The only thing i would change is the HD. I'm a WD fan.. through and through, but the Seagate 320GB w/perpendicular recording is the cream of the 7200 rpm crop. It's $15 more, but you get a little more capacity also, for the extra money.. GL

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148140

 

[Gars]

The reason I didn't select OCZ ram was that after reading multiple reviews(over 200), I found that they had multiple errors with the mobo and that XMS2 ram was perfect plug and play.

Thank you, 1Tanker, for the Seagate HD recommendation. I plan on using that instead of the WD.