First Build Of My Life

[pwm24]

About a week ago i decided i was sick of waiting to get on the family computer at my house and decided to build my own pc. I did some research shoped around and this is what im ganna pick out. Plz tell me if somethin does not work right with the parts i have picked out? Or if anything better for the same price.

cd rom- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16827106055

case- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811208008

hd- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822144423

mobo- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813131096

ram- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820145034

vid- http://www.newegg.com/product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814150229

proc- http://www.newegg.com/product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819103735

[Cricket]

I'm not familiar with AMD builds, but please don't use the power supply that comes with that case...it's made by L&C, one of the worst power supply manufacturer's on the planet. It's not a good quality unit. See this thread (http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=131195) for power supply information.

:) Cricket

[xraycatj]

just some input on the 8600 GT vid card. I was recommended this card by the PC mech guys:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127286
and it works great for me. costs less and it overclocks without voiding the warranty. Mine is set at 650Mhz core and 1600Mhz memory without any problems. At one point it was set to 700mhz core - 1600mhz memory and ran without problems. when I set it to 701mhz it froze so i backed it down to 650 and it hasn't had a hiccup since.

[Cricket]

Another video card choice. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130085)

Personally, I wouldn't use a XFX video card...their association with Pine/PC Chips makes me nervous.

:) Cricket

[pwm24]

i ended up getting the msi.
Ill get back to yall on maybe friday but def monday all the items should be in.

[Cricket]

Did you order a different power supply or are you using the one that comes with that XION case? L&C power supplies are cheap, low quality units that have been known to die suddenly and kill other computer components when they do.

:) Cricket

[Gen.Ben]

I really hope you will get a different power supply.

I have the same case for a secondary rig. And let me tell you, the PSU in that is a joke. It gave me problems since the start, sometimes it even didn't have enough to juice to boot up. Thank heavens it didn't take any components with it. So I replaced it shortly after with a quality PSU from Corsair.

Currently I am using the case with a new PSU as my home print/file server(this case is better than no case :) ) and it's doing it's job.