1100 Dollar Budget (based on research over few months)

[wmsrm59]

My Build

Motherboard: EVGA 122-CK-NF68-TR LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel
Price: $219.99 ($15.00 Mail in rebate)
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813188010

Ram: Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
Price: 273.49 ($25.00 Mail in rebate)
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146565

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Conroe 2.13GHz 2M shared L2 Cache LGA 775
Price: $222.00
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115004

Video Card: EVGA 320-P2-N811-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card
Price: $299.00 ($20.00 Mail in rebate)
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130082

Power Supply: OCZ OCZ700GXSSLI GameXStream 700W
Price: $132.99 ($25.00 Mail in rebate)
Link: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=316505

Case: 4 fans, clear window, uv reactive cables, 9 drive bays, fan grills, fan lights (Already have)

Hard Drive 1 and 2: two 36 gig 10,000 RPM Raptor’s on a raid 0 (Already have)
Hard Drive 3: 250 gig 7200 RPM hard drive (Already have)

Total: $1148.00
Total with rebates: $1063.00
Total w/o video card: $848.00

My question is if you were going to lower the price which things would you change?

I want to have ram that has d9 IC, any ram with d9 IC that you suggest as an alternative?

I wont have SLI for a while, would all this run with a less expensive power supply, how low or which brand would you recommend?

How much of a difference is the E6400 vs. E6300 in OC and speed, is the E6400 worth the price difference?

Should I wait for the 8600 series to come out?

 

[sillywabbit]

If you don't plan to SLI and there are no other features drawing you to buy that mobo, consider stepping down to the Gigabyte DS3 which will save you about $70.

 

[Mondoman]

...
I want to have ram that has d9 IC, any ram with d9 IC that you suggest as an alternative? ...

Why, exactly? You can easily save $100 without performance loss here.

Your PS is fine and reasonably priced -- not much room for savings there.

 

[skyguy]

Here's the RAM listings, look for the ones with Micron D9's, then check that against pricing.....you might get lucky depending on what you want.

http://ramlist.ath.cx/ddr2/