New build, what do you think?

treddstone

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This is what I'm planning on building withing the next few months. I'd like to wait for the next quarter so Intel prices will be slashed, and maybe by then GPUs will be a little cheaper. But either way, this is it.

SAMSUNG 920NW Black 19" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 700:1 - Retail-$160 after $20 rebate

G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail-$85

EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320-P2-N811-AR HDCP Video Card - Retail-$260 after $20 rebate

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail-$230

NZXT LEXA-NP Black/ Silver Aluminum Construction Plastic Front Panel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail-$125

GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail-$130

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM-$70

ENERMAX Liberty ELT500AWT ATX12V 500W Power Supply 90V~265V (Auto Adjusted) UL, cUL, TUV, CB- Retail-$110

LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write Black SATA Model ... - OEM-$35

Logitech G5/Saitek Eclipse2 - Retail-$110

Microsoft Windows Vista 64-Bit Home Premium for System - OEM-$115

Total-$1465 without shipping

Anybody have any suggestions/revisions you think I should make? I'd like to keep it at least below $1600 so this is about the perfect fit, but I'm open to ideas. Thanks!
 
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I would change the psu to the corsair 520w which is 104$ at buy.com (94$ after mail in rebate, free shipping), and the case for the antec 900 looking at amazon with the price of 105$ (but that's me), other than that it looks good
 
Yeah I didn't mean to copy the 32-bit, that was stupid. Anyway, I don't think my mobo supports sli...does anyone think this might hinder upgradeability? I mean, since I'm not building for a few months, I'd like to see if maybe a better dx10 card is released, so maybe a couple changes will have to be made, but what is there to say about this system's lifetime of adequate gaming?
 
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