CD Drives- Anything of your choice, NEC and Lite-on are good ones,make sure its RW
Case- Again anything of your choice, but read the reviews, and dont cheap out
CPU cooler- Big typhoon, 9500 CNPS, Scythe Ninja, Tuniq Tower, and of these will work nicley. This is optinal but its highley reccomended
VGA Cooler- VF700 and VF900 are some of the best, this is optinal and sometimes isnt needed .
Artic Silver 5- $7
Total comes out to 1071, and that leave you about 445 dollars to spend on a nice monitor, except Im not a very good monitor guy so Il let someone else handle that
and artic silver 5 is a thermal compound that is put on the cpu and cools it. It happens to be 99.9 percent silver.
Its used by almost evreybody and is widley known......They Sort of have a monopoly in that section of computing accesories. Its one of the most popular and is definatly worth the 7 dollars