Budgeted gaming build for college

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Schwoopie

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Hi everybody,

This fall I go off to college, and as of right now I'm going to be building my own tower, so don't try and convince me to switch to a laptop for college haha. I've been working with computers for a while, but this is my first build from scratch, so I wanted to run it past some other people.

The tentative setup will be as follows:

Motherboard: Intel BOXDH67CLB3 LGA 1155 Intel H67

CPU: Intel Core i5-2400 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz

RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB

Video Card: Zotac AMP GeForce GTX 480

HDD: Seagate Barracuda

Disc Drive: Samsung Blue-Ray Drive

PSU: OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W

Wireless Adapter: Rosewill USB 2.0 Wireless Adapter

Case: APEVIA ATX Case

Monitor: Acer 20" LCD monitor

Keyboard: Rosewill Keyboard

Mouse: Kensington Optical Mouse

I tried keeping costs down on keyboard, mouse, monitor, and hard drive, but maybe someone else has a better idea.

I was pretty iffy on the power supply on this list, as to whether it would be strong enough for this rig, feedback would be appreciated.

Also, the wireless adapter is unfortunately necessary for the school's network :(

Just wanted to see what someone else thinks. I'm looking to keep the total cost around $1000 more or less. I do intend to game on this PC. Any suggestions for alternate parts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks :D
 
Thanks for the advice.

What I'm curious of is what is it about that video card that makes it better (not saying it isn't)?
 
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It remains cooler and also requires less power so the GTX570 is the way to go.
 
 
Thanks for the help, that monitor's the same price as what I was looking at already so that's awesome. That case is pretty sweet too.
 
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