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I will most likely be playing Half life 2 mods and this system should be able to play at max fps on max settings. I am not really looking to play crysis or games of that caliber for a while. Is this a good system for the price and have I chosen decent parts? Thank you in advance for any feedback.

If you're not overclocking, ditch the cpu cooler & swap the ram out for any value PC2-6400 RAM.

The only good psu from TT is ToughPower. That ain't it. Either get a Corsair VX 450/500+ or a tier 2/3:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forum [...] p?t=108088

It WON'T play Crysis at full settings. It will play HF2 maxed out. What's the monitor resolution?

Perfect.

You can max out most every new games with that GTS512 at that resolution.

Since you're overclocking the cpu, get a better cooler like infinity, ninja, typhoon, tuniq, t120e (TRUE), etc. Freezer is great for stock or light overclock.