Any suggestions for my first build?

[Prowler]

Hello folks,
This will be the first PC I build! I'm looking forward to the experience. I have read many guides online on how to build a system plus I myself am pretty computer savy (atleast I think). Anyway, I'm going all out here; so give me any sugestions or tips that you think might help me. Any advice given is greatly appreciated.

The PC:

Case: SILVERSTONE TJ-03 BLCK Black Aluminum front panel/door, 1.5mm aluminum body ATX Full Tower Computer Case_____

PSU: PC Power & Cooling TURBO-COOL 850 SSI T85SSI SLI, EPS12V, SSI 850W Power Supply 90 - 264V UL/ ULC/ CE/ TUV _______

Mobo: ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard ___

CPU: AMD Athlon FX-52 (When Newegg gets it in) ________

HDD: Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive ______

RAM: CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM Unbuffered DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit System Memory ____

Pri Optical: LITE-ON Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 5X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache ATAPI/E-IDE DVD Burner With LightScribe __

Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface Sound Card _____

Video Card: 2x eVGA 512-P2-N570-AX Geforce 7900GTX 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card ____________

FDD: _____

Keyboard: Logitech _________

Mouse: Logitech G5 _______

Modem: ____________________

Lan: __________________

Monitor: LG L2000C Black 20.1" 8ms LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 800:1 0.255mm Pixel Pitch

Speakers: Headphones _____

OS: XP Pro.

I know Vista and DX10 are not to far, but my current PC is hurting when it comes to gaming and programming work.

[makisushi]

Man, that looks like the worst setup I have ever seen...





HAHA...just kidding. Looks good to me!
also, I think you meant fx-62, right?

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by makisushi Man, that looks like the worst setup I have ever seen... HAHA...just kidding. Looks good to me! also, I think you meant fx-62, right?

You scared me for a sec! Yeah, I did mean FX-62. Thats what happens when I type at 2AM.

[Alaron]

Looks good to me. My only suggestion is to pick up another, larger hard drive for storage. 150GB can fill up fast with lots of games.

[Thurrdome]

I hope you don't have heating problems with all that power. SLI 7900 GTX. Wow. Pretty serious for your first build. Just make sure your system is kept cool, and that will last you for a long time.

[Planenutok]

I wish i could have built a system like that for my first one

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Alaron Looks good to me. My only suggestion is to pick up another, larger hard drive for storage. 150GB can fill up fast with lots of games.

Good point, I'm contemplating putting my 300GB HD in their from my current system.

As for cooling, I hope stock cooling will suffice. I have a pretty good HS and fan combo for my processor. If things start to get unstable the case is big enough for me to add whatever cooling is necessary.

[Prowler]

Think this Heatsink/Fan combo will work well for the CPU?

http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16835109118 THERMALRIGHT XP-120 CPU Cooling Heatsink
http://www.silenxusa.com/productcart...?idCategory=10 SilenX 120mm

[blue60007]

Yeah, it'll work great. However, why don't you give stock cooling a go? It should work fine. Also that's a huge cooler, so I would put it together first and make sure it will even fit (that won't even fit in my case - the XP-90 barely fits).

[Prowler]

With 2x GTX cards there is no room for a PhysiX card correct? I may go for a 7950GX2 in that case.

[Alaron]

You might be able to slide a PhysX card into the last PCI slot, but the size of the coolers on the 7900GTX's you chose might be too large. But I would skip the PhysX card for now. There aren't enough games that support it. And those that do aren't helped much by it yet.