New Gaming Build - Please rate if possible

Hello, I'm new to these forums, but would be most appreciative if any of you would be so kind as to rate my planned build that I will hopefully make this coming August.



Motherboard: Asus M3N-HT Deluxe/Mempipe Nforce 780a SLI Socket AM2+ onboard VGA HDMI audio ATX Motherboard
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/144554

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ (3.2 GHz) Socket AM2 L2 2MB (2x1MB) Retail Boxed Processor
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/140714

Case: Coolermaster Elite 330 Black Case With CM eXtreme Power 460W PSU
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135101

HDD: Seagate ST3250620A 250GB Hard Drive 7200RPM 16MB Cache (Two of these)
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/115413

RAM: OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 CL 4-4-4-15 PLATINUM XTC with LIFETIME WARRANTY
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/116755

DVD Drive: Sony DRU-190S 20X DVD±RW DL & DVD-RAM Serial ATA - Retail Multi Bezel & Nero
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142274

Graphics Card: Sapphire HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI TV Out PCI-E
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145524

OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128332

Monitor: GNR TS902W TFT 19" Monitor 300 cd/m2 850:1 5 ms 16:9 Multimedia DVI-D/VGA
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/116840/


Any and all opinions or ideas are appreciated. I do have some questions though;

1) By choosing Windows XP x64 Edition, will I have compatability issues with my hard drives or other componants?
2) The total price for this build is around 800GBP / $1500-ish; how is this price for the things I am getting?

As mentioned above, any help will be gladly recieved, thank you for your time.

You have a SLI motherboard, but are using an ATI graphic card. Although it would work fine as a single card GPU, you wouldn't be able to add another card for SLI. If you want to use just a single graphic card then you could save money by going with a P35 or a newer P43/P45 motherboard. If you want to go with a crossfire set up then go with a X38/X48 motherboard.
about the same price for an Intel X48 Gigabyte motherboard
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/1453 [...] e=extended
about the same price point, better Intel CPU E8200 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139967
I would stick with the XP 32 bit or if you want 64 bit then go with Vista

After revising my choices, I have come up with this selection, please let me know what you think about it;


Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4 iX48 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145368

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 Socket 775 (2.66GHz) FSB1333 6MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139967

Case: Coolermaster Elite 330 Black Mid Tower Case - No PSU
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/127584

PSU: Arctic Power 700W PSU - With PCI-E, 4x SATA, 20+4, ATX12V, 8pin +12V Connectors
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/124927

HDD: Seagate ST3250620A 250GB Hard Drive 7200RPM 16MB Cache (Two of these)
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/115413

RAM: OCZ 4GB Kit (2x2GB) 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Platinum Performance CL5 (5-4-4-18)
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132904

DVD Drive: Sony DRU-190S 20X DVD±RW DL & DVD-RAM Serial ATA - Retail Multi Bezel & Nero
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142274

Graphics Card: Sapphire HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI TV Out PCI-E
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145524

OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium - Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 64-bit - English
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/123067

Monitor: GNR TS902W TFT 19" Monitor 300 cd/m2 850:1 5 ms 16:9 Multimedia DVI-D/VGA
Link: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/116840/


I took onboard the advice about processors and mobos and I chose a non-PSU case and got a 700W supply for it. Then I moved over to 64-bit Vista and bumped up my RAM to 4Gb.

1) How is this new system now; can you see any compatibility issues?2) Taking say Crysis as a benchmark, how well should it perform with this build?

Again, thank you for your help!

I would go with the E8400 instead of the E8200.