My first computer build

Hi Wolf

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Case - XION Mid Tower Case -30$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811208009

Motherboard - GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 - 150$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128012

Memory - G.SKILL 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory - 120$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231088

Hard Drive - Western Digital 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache - 55$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144415

DVD-Rom - NEC Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE/ATAPI DVD Burner - OEM - 30$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152058

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M sharing L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - 330$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115003

MSI RX1900XTX-VT2D512E Radeon X1900XTX 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express x16 Video Card -280$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127205

Rosewill RP500-2 ATX 2.01 500W Power Supply 115/230 V CSA, CB, TUV, FCC, UL - 55$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817182016

Budget - $900
Total - $1050

I am mainly going to be using this computer for gaming. I already have a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. I am probably going to get another stick of memory later on. Are there any better parts I could get without spending much more money? This is going to be my first time building a computer so I really don't know what I'm doing. Any comments would help. :D
 
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Definetly pick up another gig of ram, you might be bottlenecked there. I haven't seen much reviews on the 7950GT, so I can't cmoment on that, but the x1900xtx has a real beefy mail in rebate!! Looks like a good rounded gaming rig.
 
Thanks, I'm probably going to get another gig of ram in a month or two after buying all the parts since I'm already over my budget by 100$. I'm most worried about if the ram is compatible with the motherboard, and if the case and PSU are any good since I know nothing about PSU's and cases.
 
PSU is fne,rosewill psus are usually pretty good.The case is eh,its a mid case so its small.And he cant get another gig of ram atm due to his budget,what i personaly would do is downgrade to an e6400 and get a 2nd gig because the only difference between the e6400 and the e6600 is the stock speed and the e6600 has 2mb more cache.

EDIT:And get the X1900XTX,its cheaper and its the superior graphic card.
 
Thanks for the replies. Any other suggestions or comments? If not I'm probably going to order this in a couple days.
 
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