Building my first computer. 1400$ limit

[tkay]

Gaming computer. I have some knowledge but this is my first time actually building one.
antec900
raptor 150gb
8800 gts
corsar 520hx
liteon20x dvdr/cdr
artic cooling mx-2
crucial ballistix 2gb
ABIT IX38 Quad GT LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX
q6600
tt120mm
thermalright ultra-120 extreme

 

[Invisible]

abit ip35 ( or ip35-e if you can do without a 1334 port and RAID)
q6600
8800gt
Case:
high end: Thermaltake Armor, Antec 900, Gigabyte auora 3d (or w/e)
Regular: Cooler master RC-690
psu: Corsair 520hx, Seasonic 500 watt, Xclio Greatpower 550
Memory : 2x 1 GB crucial ballistix ddr2 800
CPU Heatsink fan: either Tuniq Tower 120 or Thermalright 120 extreme (note you have to buy a seperate fan on the second one)
HDD: Seagate 500gb 7200.11 or go 1TB if you need more space
OS: if you can "aquire" get XP then switch to vista when its more fine tuned, if you cant then just get vista premium now

hope i didnt go over

 

[ShaolinDreams]

should we recommend Phenom?

 

[Invisible]

um....no?
and shaolin isnt the q9450 a yorkfield not penryn?
i could be wrong

 

[ShaolinDreams]

im not 100% sure :| codenames/models/versions

Intel Core 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The successor to the Merom core currently used for the Core 2 Duo T5000/T7000 series mobile processors, code-named Penryn

Intel released sixteen new 45 nm Penryn processors on November 12, 2007. However, all but the QX9650 were Xeon models.

It is a Yorkfield thats for sure

I was thinking it was the codename for all the new 45nm cpu's and the other names was different models.

anyone?

 

[veedubfreak]

what invisible said. thats way under your budget and will play everything you want. Penryn is basically the code name for the 45nm cpu's. Yorkfield is the quadcore.

 

[Deadpixel]

P5K Deluxe 209
Q6600 280
2Gb Crucial Ballistix 59.
8800GT 269
Corsair 520HX or Pc Power and cooling 610 114/129
LG DVD drive 28
320GB of 500GB Seagate Barracuda HDD 94/124
Cooler MASter 690 30
TT-120Extremew.120MM fan 64+12(fan)
MX-2 6

total with pc Power and cooling, and 500GB=1210

 

[ShaolinDreams]

i go with Deadpixels build.. noooice. Way under budget... with the saving id get a better razer mouse (copperhead, deathadder, Lachesis)

is that P5K motherboard SLi? cos he did list SLi on his list. Maybe he wants that option.

 

[veedubfreak]

p5k is a crossfire board. For sli, you have to drop back to 680i. EVGA ftw.

 

[Pdawg]

Personal opinion - I'd just stick with the single card theory bc/ by the time you truly need SLI or Crossfire (excluding a "pineapple" like Crysis - 10 points for whoever gets this recent tv show reference) then another single card will come out that can beat your SLI setup.
Bottom line for me: Why overkill when you don't have to?