About to order rig - last look over!!!

Hey, thanks for all of the help that I've gotten on these boards, and I think I'm finally ready to put in my order with Digital Storm for my new rig.

Please just take one last look over my specs (I made some changes), and tell me if there's something you think I should take another look at or change.

Thanks for any input!

Case: RAIDMAX ATX-701WB Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Power Supply: 500W Thermaltake (Silent PurePower Edition)

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz (1066MHz Front Side Bus) (4MB Cache)

Motherboard: eVGA 650i Core 2 Quad (Chipset: nForce 650i Ultra) (Quad Core Conroe)

Memory: 2GB DDR2 Corsair at 800MHz XMS2 (Dual Channel) (Extreme-Performance)

Hard Drive 1: 320GB Western Digital (16MB Cache) (7200 RPM) (SATA)

Optical Drive 1: DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 18x / CD-Writer 48x)

Optical Drive 2: DVD-ROM/CD-ROM (DVD Reader 16x / CD Reader 40x)

Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8800GTX 768MB (By: eVGA) (PCI-Express)

Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy SE (Up to 7.1 Channel)

Cooling: Air Cooled Stage 2 (Silent Artic Cooling Heat-sink (Copper Heatpipes)

Round Cables: Enhanced Interior Air Flow (Optical Drive & Floppy Cables (Blue Edition)

Windows OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium

I would get a different sound card. The x-fi series from creative is good. get rid of the second optical drive...its a wastedarkmagician06

I don't feel like spending the extra money right now for an X-Fi card.

I want the second optical drive so that I can quickly burn from one CD to another. One read-drive and one write-drive will allow me to do that, right?

Power Supply: 500W Thermaltake (Silent PurePower Edition)

FireBurger

I know nvidia says that the minimum required PSU for the 8800gtx is 450w, but if I were you I'd get a little bit of a larger PSU. Just in case you want to overclock or add another 8800 later on.

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Power Supply: 500W Thermaltake (Silent PurePower Edition)

devofreqo

I know nvidia says that the minimum required PSU for the 8800gtx is 450w, but if I were you I'd get a little bit of a larger PSU. Just in case you want to overclock or add another 8800 later on.

I'll look into getting a 550W, but as for SLI, the mobo is not SLI capable so that is not an issue. I prefer to simply buy the current top-of-the-line card which often outperforms two older cards in SLI.

I would get a different sound card. The x-fi series from creative is good. get rid of the second optical drive...its a wastedarkmagician06

sound cards are over rated.  integrated works just fine.

You sure are indecisive, eh? Multiple topics. :P

It's pretty good for a pre-built. 

You sure are indecisive, eh? Multiple topics. :P

 

It's pretty good for a pre-built.

Hiryuu_

Haha, yeah, sorry about that.:P I just keep getting suggestions and I keep looking further into stuff on my own, so I keep ending up making changes.

I just want to make sure that I'm getting everything right when I'm spending this kind of money. 

I agree with what's already been said about the sound card. That Audigy SE is junk. Either get a Xi-FI or just use the integrated audio. Integrated audio is usually fairly good these days (certainly better than a crappy sound card), and Vista doesn't really like sound cards. To be honest, it seems to me like sound cards are being phased out.

If you don't give a crap about SLI, I would strongly urge you to get an Intel based motherboard, like a 975X. They're a lot more stable than anything Nvidia produces in my experience.  I absolutely love my Intel Bad Axe 2. It's got all of the stablity and support of an Intel motherboard, with the overclocking features of enthusiast boards.

Intel Mobo + Intel Proc = rock-solid stability.