First Build, need a little help.

[Steve Brody]

So I am building my first good computer for around $1500 dollars. I will be gaming on it and have it hooked up to a 32" Westinghouse LCD at 720P or I'm getting a new TV lol.

Anyways, here is what I picked so far for the computer and was wondering if anyone could tell me if everything is compatible.

Case -Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

PSU - PC Power & Cooling Silencer PPCS910 910W ATX12V 2.2 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Active PFC Power Supply Compatible with Core i7

MotherBoard - ASRock X58 Extreme LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard

CPU -
Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor

CPU cooling - COOLER MASTER Intel Core i7 compatible Hyper N 520 RR-920-N520-GP 92mm Sleeve CPU Cooler

GPU -
EVGA 017-P3-1175-AR GeForce GTX 275 1792MB 448-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Supported Video Card

RAM -
Crucial 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Triple Channel Kit

DVD - LITE-ON Black 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW SATA CD/DVD Burner

HDD - Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"

Will all this be compatible? Is there anything I'm missing?

[glc]

Replace the motherboard with an Asus P6T Deluxe V2 and you should have a stable system.

[Steve Brody]

The motherboard I picked has a 5star 95% rating on newegg and is 100 dollars cheaper. I'm just trying to make sure everything will work together and the case is big enough.

[glc]

You get what you pay for, to me there is no sense in putting a cheap board in a high end system. Asrock boards are made by ECS. The Nine Hundred is big enough for ANYTHING.

[Khalil]

You picked a refuse motherboard, newegg customer rating means very little, most who rate are newbs who are clueless. If you want a solid motherboard with excellent tech support go with glc recommended, if you want a cheapy don't waste your time with i7 period!!!!!
welcome to pcmech forums

[Steve Brody]

Thanks for the welcome :-)

I will be going for the other motherboard that was recommended, no reason to cheap out on parts. I was also thinking different RAM, any suggestions?

[glc]

Khalil has quite a few i7 builds under his belt and I believe he has had the best luck with Kingston ram. Wait for him to post back for confirmation. He's the one that told us that that particular Asus board is the most stable out there - the X58 chipset in general has been VERY fussy.

The rest of the build looks solid - but you may want to at least look at the Western Digital Black hard drives - I'm pretty gunshy on Seagate since the firmware fiasco last year.

[Steve Brody]

Okay, I hear Asus has amazing customer support. All my knowledge of computers comes from reading forums and some reviews. I have never built a computer. I've read about parts for the last few years though. Always wanted to build a good computer and finally have my chance so I'm going to.

Anyways, any advice y'all give me is of much help, Thanks a bunch. :-)

[glc]

Another thing - unless you plan on overclocking, the stock CPU cooler will do the job.

[Steve Brody]

I want to get the CPU up to like 3.3-3.5.