Help building wife's computer

1k budget build shouldn't be hard for a gaming computer on a quad.

Q9650.
Gigabyte UD3P for crossfire or the Gigabyte UD3R for non crossfiring,
ASUS P5Q Pro. either of those boards.
Sapphire HD 4870 512mb
Western Digital 340gb or western digital black 500gb-640gb.
Case, already have.
Could get a simple stock cooler since you dont need oc'ing but, if you do, Arctic cooling 7 pro or S1283 preferrably + retention Bracket.
PSU 500w PC Power Cooling.. would send out the page links but, someone will always have something else to say and bring in more page links to another product, so, theres a list i got going.

Q9550 $280
GA-EP45-UD3P $115
Sapphire HD 4870 1GB $215
WD6401AALS $80
G.Skill PI Black DDR2-800 2x2GB $55
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 20DDR2-800
SH-S223F $25
PC P&C S75CF 750W $80
Vista Home Premium 64 $100
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6832116488

That's $950 if I added them up correctly. Before rebates it should be around $1000.

Add a second card later if needed.

Acer's 22inch is cheaper than that at 2500:1.
but, thats not a bad one aswell.

if its to much, can switch the sapphire down to a 512mb.
4870 either way is good enough, even a 4850 is good enough.

Yea, the G.skills ram, tighter timings, cheaper.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231230

or these ocz's at tighter timings

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820227381

that cooler you picked, is a big cooler. pricey, depending on how long you have till you get this,

the dark knight S1238v should be in stock sometime, or just stick with that one you picked.

Yea, good hd.

usually i prefer ocz over g.skills, so i put those down on the last post.

tighter timings, good quality.