New Builder

[AFgamer]

I'm 21 and in the Air force and my laptop is falling apart after 3 years from such intensive use. I started looking at different systems and eventually found out that I could build a good system cheaper then going to Dell, HP, Alienware, etc. This is my first time building a computer, and I have been doing research for about the past 1 - 1 1/2 weeks. I am a heavy gamer, mainly playing World of Warcraft, but I do a lot of things while playing such as listening to music, downloading music, researching stuff for upcoming bosses on WoW and the like. I'm still looking at different water cooling products, so I wont list any of those. I also plan on eventually going to SLI. So far this is the system that I have come up with.

Thermaltake Black Armor Full-Tower ATX Case
EVGA nForce 680i SLI NVIDIA Socket 775 ATX Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.40GHz processor
Ultra X-Finity 600-Watt PSU
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX Water cooling Edition
OCZ Dual Channel 2048 MB PC8500 DDR2 1066 MHz Ram
Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro Sound card
Plextor Premium PX-760A DVD burner/CD burner
Western Digital SATA 10k RPM 150 GB HDD

Any suggestions or recommendations anyone could give me would be more then welcome.

 

[jimmymac]

i'd say you've done some pretty damn good research there, very nice system you'll have.

Can't think of anything in particular to chagne really. You could always get a slightly smaller raptor HDD for the OS and such and then get a decent larger HDD in there too, amazing how quick you can fill 150gb really.

Otherwise good job so far