Need Help with build

[boalic]

This is going to be for my parents. Its not my first build but I havent kept up with any of the new hardware. Primary use for just internet surfing and basic picture editing. Feel free to suggest anything or point out any problems.

case - Antec Sonata III Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 500W Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129024

mobo - ASUS P5LD2 R2.0 LGA 775 Intel 945P ATX Intel Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131048

CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115029

HDD - Seagate Barracuda ES ST3320620NS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148215

Ram - Kingston ValueRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820134117

Pri Optical - LITE-ON Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache IDE 20X DVD±R DVD Burner - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106228

Sec Optical - LITE-ON Black 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model DH-16D2P-08 - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106087

Sound card - guess use the mobo unless someone recommends not doing that. this isnt a big issue for them

Video Card - Ideas?!?!?

OS - guessing windows xp, I have no experence with Vista. Ive heard there was some problems with it at launch. If its better let me know please.

[Devastator]

If they are going to be playing games you need a video card otherwise leave it out.

E6550 is only slightly less speed same FSB, i'd reccomend getting that.

The 945 chipset is quite old now, it's mostly P35 and X38 is being slowly brought in too, so I'd reccomend looking at a P5K with onboard graphics if I were you.

Do they really need to have 320GB? It's upto you, but you could save some money there.

I doubt your going to be overclocking this so 667MHz Ram (PC25300) would do the job.

Unless they are going to be burning from one DVD to the other etc, 1 optical is enough.

The onboard sound on motherboards these days is excellent leave the sound card out. Also a very good choice on Case & PSU.

Any finally why not give them something more future proof, get Vista. I don't think it's that bad really and it will become a must in the next few years I reckon. However if they don't like change - keep XP then theres nothing new to learn.

[telegramsam]

That motherboard is NOT compatible with the 1333FSB CPU you've listed. Look at the ASUS P5K instead.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131180

[Masaki 7-11]

If this computer that you are building is not going to be used for gaming or heavy multimedia stuff like encoding or video editing, you could easily make a computer for about half the cost of your current configuration.