building my first system

[rkenshin09]

hey all, I was thinking about building a sub-$1000 and was wondering what you guys thought of it.

SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model SH-S203N - OEM
Model #:SH-S203N - $26.99


COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-WW Black/Silver Aluminum Bezel, SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - $59.99


Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFD 150GB 10000 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s Hard Drive $174.99


MSI K9N SLI-F V.2 AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570LT ATX AMD Motherboard $79.99


2x EVGA 512-P3-N802-AR GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - $311.98


Rosewill RP550V2-D-SL 550W SLI Ready-ATX12V V2.01 Dual Fans Power Supply - $59.99


G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ - $79.99

AMD Phenom 9850 2.5GHz Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Processor Model HD9850XAJ4BGH - $209.99


ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler - $26.99

total: ~$1030

I'll also need a few case fans and some thermal grease, but I'd rather focus on components first.

Thanks

 

[akhilles]

What are the uses? Will the cpu be overclocked?

 

[Onus]

That's a lot of money to spend on a hard drive. You can get a much bigger drive for less, which will be almost as fast. Use a portion of the money saved there to buy a better quality PSU. Some Rosewills have received a favorable review by Jonnyguru, but a) I'm not sure that's one of them, b) the brand as a whole appears on tier-5 ("Do not buy") of an admittedly aging PSU listing, and c) cheap / bad PSUs tend to smoke and croak at some percentage of their claimed rating, often taking other parts with them.
Corsair, Antec, Enermax, PC Power & Cooling, and OCZ all make good PSUs that would be better choices.

 

[evongugg]

Welcome to the forums!

Here is some help with the power supply. Check the SLIZone.com:

Top Tier PSU:
http://www.tomswiki.com/page/Tiered+PSU+Listings?t=anon

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=108088

http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx?i=3359

http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1460

Silent PSUs
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article699-page1.html

AMD Certified PSUs (Single+Crossfire):
http://ati.amd.com/online/certifiedpsu/index.html

Certified SLI-Ready Power Supplies
http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_build_psu.html

 

[evongugg]

Check these hard disk's charts for a speedy one with good capacity:

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hard-disks/average-read-transfer-performance,658.html