building a PC

[werdna35]

OK, about the motherboard. I looked at the P5N-E board, but after browsing around everyone seems to swear by the abit AW9D-max. Whats the difference?

 

[saltynay]

I love the AW9D-max very stable great bios for overclocking but both are good boards look through the specs and compare them according to what you will use the board for either one yo choose you can't go wrong really

 

[werdna35]

OK, here is the final product of what I am going to go with. Any suggestions/changes are more than welcome, especially if they bring the price down, lol. I decided to go with 2 HDD's and just put my OS and system stuff on the raptor. As I previously said, this is going to be for a lot of multitasking (I am at school and thats what it will mostly be used for) but in my free time I like to game so I want to be able to game on it as well. How will this hold up with some of the newer games out there? Should I add any fans or anything? Also, I will not overclock it. Never have and don't know how so I don't want to risk ruining it. Once it is old and I am getting a new one, I may experiment with OCing but not for a long time and not until I don't mind it getting ruined.

Case: LIAN LI PC-61 USB Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
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PSU: Antec True Power Trio TP3-550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply with Three 12V Rails 100
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CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor
Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail

Mobo: ASUS P5N-E SLI LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
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GPU: EVGA 320-P2-N815-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card
Newegg.com - EVGA 320-P2-N815-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card - Retail

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Newegg.com - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

And: Western Digital Raptor WD360ADFD 36GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive
Newegg.com - Western Digital Raptor WD360ADFD 36GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM

RAM: G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
Newegg.com - G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail

Optic drive: LITE-ON Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 8X DVD-R DL 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM IDE Burner with LightScribe Technology
Newegg.com - LITE-ON Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 8X DVD-R DL 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM IDE Burner with LightScribe Technology - Retail

Monitor: Acer AL2016WBbd Black 20" 5ms DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 800:1
Newegg.com - Acer AL2016WBbd Black 20" 5ms DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 800:1 - Retail

 

[motoxer4533]

Well, I don't really think you need the Lightscribe DVD Burner. They cost a little bit more and the disc's for them are also more expensive.

Everything else looks excellent, enjoy. Post pics when its done.