Asess my system - (budget gaming)

Alright guys, here's my first stab after listening to your advice. Going for the most bang for the buck, quiet parts favored.

1. Did I make any mistakes? Are all these compatible and able to fit in the case and everything?

2. Do you see anything that could be made cheaper without reducing the quality much or improved without increasing the cost?




CPU
E8400
$170 on newegg

Video card
MSI Radeon 4850
$163 AR on newegg, $9 shipping


Hard Drive
WD 640GB
$85 on newegg

RAM
Kingston DDR2 800
$70 on newegg

PSU
Corsair 450vx
$40 AR on ZZF, $10 shipping

Mobo
GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L
$80 on mwave, $9 shipping

Case
Rosewill R6A34-BK
$40 on newegg


Drive
Samsung SH-S203B
$25 on mwave, +$1 shipping

Nice build

That PSU is actually solid.
Unless you want to go crossfire, or have 5 drives or something, it's good.
only 450 watts, but the build quality of corsair psu's is so high.
I just built a computer with a 4850,e7200,zalman 9700led, gigabyte ep35-ds3l with that psu, and it runs great.
I can run crysis on all high settings with 2xaa at 1280x1024, cod4, everything max (4xaa, because that's as high as it goes in the cod4 settings), and fps is WAY over playable. Vsync is limiting it to 75 fps (occasionally drops down to 40, but obv, 40 is perfectly playable for a min fps). I get 3dmark scores of ~12700 as well.
Note that I have overclocked both the cpu (to 3.4, from 2.53ghz) and the gpu, slightly. I've stressed tested for 10 hours and it seems fine.
You should be able to get at least the same performance I do, as long as you get a good cooler. That PSU is perfectly fine for single graphic cards.

I suppose I'll think about the 7200, but I've heard the 8400 overclocks really well too. And I like RAM so I'll probably stick with the 4GB since the price difference isn't too bad. Also found a better deal on RAM like 40 seconds ago.

build looks fine. and yeah, whoever it was that said 450W isn't enough doesn't know what he's saying. 450W is plenty for a single card configuration. the only reason you would need a more powerful one would be if you have 2+ video cards or something like a 4870x2, more than 1 hard drive, and a huge OC on your cpu.

I believe that the E8400 is only $150 at microcenter.com

Looks like a good build.

Also if going with the P35-DS3L you absolutely need to check out:

GUIDE: Overclocking On P35-DS3L

Seems like that's in-store only and I don't think there's one near me. Good deal though. Where did you find it?

Thanks, will definitely do that.

Yeah, I think I saw that. I looked again and I'm kind of torn. Yes the case is probably a lot better, but the PSU has multiple 12v rails at lowish amperage and I only need one so the one really strong rail on the PSU I listed suits me better. It's also 18 bucks S&H, so really close to $40 more. That combine with the fact that the case I listed is supposed to be just as good as the majority of $80-100 cases makes me kind of hesitant to change it around. Definitely a good suggestion though. I'm mulling it over. If anyone else has thoughts on it feel free to chime in.