this is gonna be my new build and my first and i cant decide on a good cpu cooler or psu but these are my specs if anyone has any suggestions or thoughts let me know and could anyone explain raid to me all i know is that you backup your hdds with it so im kind of oblivious
 
Processor- Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8400    
 
Mother Board- EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard – Retail      
 
Memory-(2) G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory    
 
Hard Drives- (3) Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KSRTL 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive      
 
Cd drive- SAMSUNG Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 20X DVD±R DVD Burner  
 
Case- COOLER MASTER Stacker RC-832-KKN1-GP Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case  
 
PSU- ?
 
Video Card- 2-EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card    
 
Case Fans- (4)  APEVIA CF12SL-UBL 120mm Blue LED Case Fan  
 
Cpu cooler- ?
 
OS- Vista 64 bit

My choices:
PSU PC Power & Cooling 750 Silencer
CPU cooler Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme  
 
Consider:
4 x 2 Gigs ram
maybe 1 or 2 Seagate 500 or 750 GB HD versus your 3 smaller ones
 
Raid 0 is faster with no back up
Raid 1 provides a back up but is no faster
If data protection is very important raid 1 may be worth it to you

i'll go with that psu but the ram i'll stick with my choice cuz its cheaper as far as i know just as good for the cpu cooler i'm gonna go with the zalman 9700 and i may just go with 2 hdd's

Are you going to do SLI? Go with this cooler;
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835233003