Building a new PC, need advice.

Building a new comptuer,Ihaven'tbuilt a new one in like 6 years, I'm long overdue for an upgrade. Now, hopefully I can figure out how to put all this junk together..Might needsome advice on how to throw all this stuff together, I need someone who knowswhat they are talking about andtell me if this looks good.

Case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129021
CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202
MotherBoard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188049
Hard Drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136317
RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145222
Power Supply:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139009
Keyboard/Mouse:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126043
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104178
Speakers:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836121122
Bluray Drive and DVD Drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827249040
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827249054
Monitor:
http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-monitors/samsung-syncmaster-xl2370/4505-3174_7-33683882.html?tag=mncol;lst
(Optional) CPU Fan/Cooler:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118046
Not sure which video card to get... need some advice. Should I wait for the Direct X 11 cards to come out or what?
Also, OS will be Win 7.

The Caviar Green drives are mostly designed for low power consumption. They aren't great performers. You should either go with a Caviar Black or a Seagate 7200.12 instead.

I wouldn't trust EVGA for motherboards. They make great video cards but that's about it. I prefer straight from Intel motherboards. They're about as stable and reliable as you can get. My Bad Axe 2 is still working great after three years, and the support for it with driver and BIOS updates has been phenomenal. I'd suggest looking at an Intel P55 mobo and going with a socket 1156 Core i7 instead.

I don't know what to tell you about DX11 cards. You could go with the ATI 5xxx series, but I'm not a huge fan of AMD/ATI, and I would probably still go with a GTX 260 at this point.

Everything else you picked looks great.

Everything looks great, you could pick up the 5870 now, or pick up a cheap 4890 or GTX260, and wait a bit for dx11 cards (the 5xxx series are still new), or wait for nvidia's GT300's.

Building opinions are like you know what- everyone's got one, and someone else will always claim they stink. For that reason, I don't scoff at what people want to buy. My opinion is to buy slightly behind the technology curve, because you'll get good price to performance ratio out of the deal. In your specific case though, I would highly recommend going with at least 1000W power supply, especially if you plan on going two or three way SLI. Expecially with the Ge 2XX series cards. I was looking at getting a pair of 260's for SLI, and decided to just go with a pair of 9800 GTX+'s because they only needed one power connector each, and I didn't need to start investing in more PS wattage.

I will say the Antec 900 is about the best damn case I ever ran across, and I've used about a dozen or so different ones. Never again. I'll always build with this baby. True heat dissappation at its best. You won't be disappointed in your choice there. Watch out for the top 200mm fan when putting in the mobo though. That's the only downside to this case is that it doesn't have a removable mobo mounting plate thing. I can't remember what they call it technically now. The power supply mounts on the bottom, so you'll want a PS that has a fan on one of the big surfaces so that you can face it up into the case. I have twin 120mm fans intake from the front, 120mm from the side in, 120mm in the rear facing out, and 200mm at the top facing out. Really keeps it cool.

A 32MB cache HDD is good. Never get anything less than a 32MB cache. You want all the parts working with as much throughput as you can get. Makes no sense to get a fast processor, ram, and then a 8MB or 16MB HDD cache. Creates a bottleneck...

I'd question whether more than 4GB of ram does any good. Might just be wasting cash. I've never seen my usage go over 3GB that I can recall, using Vista 64bit. Then again, I don't know how much its using during games. Maybe it's worth it...

Like i have mentioned in other threads i suggest a Samsung F3 1TB because its faster than your current one and cheaper.

yeah the F3 1Tb is 80$ + free shipping and it faster so get it what you'r waiting for ;)

and in case you didn't read there wall of text ? you should really get a Scyth mugen II + some high cfm fan like 90-120cfm fan on it and ud get a really Good Cpu Cooler to OC that core i7 920 D0 stepping at 4.2Ghz probabely

I wouldn't trust EVGA for motherboards. They make great video cards but that's about it. I prefer straight from Intel motherboards.

AFraud

Okay, let's check this out:

Case is good

CPU is good.

Mobo is good. Although I'd go for a Gigabyte or an Asus, personally.

Switch the HDD to a Caviar Black, or as Marcthpro and Daytona_178, get a Samsung F3 1Tb. HDD's tend to be a major source of bottlenecking, so you'd want to reduce that as much as possible.

Memory, I'd say switch to these. They're the same speed, lower timings, and cheaper. In other words, better in every way :P

Keyboard is good, albeit a little overpriced. If you can get over going for aesthetics for your keyboard, I'd suggest getting this one. Reviews aren't too bad for the keyboard, and it is cheaper, which will save you a bit more cash for another component.

Mouse is good.

Speakers, well, they look good... :P Don't really know how to determine their quality.

Blu-ray drive, that thing is ridiculously overpriced for a blu-ray reader. Just get an internal one: Link

DVD drive will get the job done.

Monitor's good.

Now, that cpu cooler. Long story short, horrible for the price. I'd suggest the Xigmatek Dark Knight or a Scythe Mugen 2.

Overall, good idea, and with just a few tweaks, you can get a very good one.

Building opinions are like you know what- everyone's got one, and someone else will always claim they stink. For that reason, I don't scoff at what people want to buy. My opinion is to buy slightly behind the technology curve, because you'll get good price to performance ratio out of the deal. In your specific case though, I would highly recommend going with at least 1000W power supply, especially if you plan on going two or three way SLI. Expecially with the Ge 2XX series cards. I was looking at getting a pair of 260's for SLI, and decided to just go with a pair of 9800 GTX+'s because they only needed one power connector each, and I didn't need to start investing in more PS wattage.

I will say the Antec 900 is about the best damn case I ever ran across, and I've used about a dozen or so different ones. Never again. I'll always build with this baby. True heat dissappation at its best. You won't be disappointed in your choice there. Watch out for the top 200mm fan when putting in the mobo though. That's the only downside to this case is that it doesn't have a removable mobo mounting plate thing. I can't remember what they call it technically now. The power supply mounts on the bottom, so you'll want a PS that has a fan on one of the big surfaces so that you can face it up into the case. I have twin 120mm fans intake from the front, 120mm from the side in, 120mm in the rear facing out, and 200mm at the top facing out. Really keeps it cool.

A 32MB cache HDD is good. Never get anything less than a 32MB cache. You want all the parts working with as much throughput as you can get. Makes no sense to get a fast processor, ram, and then a 8MB or 16MB HDD cache. Creates a bottleneck...

I'd question whether more than 4GB of ram does any good. Might just be wasting cash. I've never seen my usage go over 3GB that I can recall, using Vista 64bit. Then again, I don't know how much its using during games. Maybe it's worth it...

sogviamask

The Antec 900 actually ranks pretty low in my books. Of nearly all the cases I've worked with, it had the worst ever cable management if you had a standard-cable-length power supply. Plus, it was slightly too thin if you wanted a side fan with a 150+ MM heatsink, and slightly too short in both height and width.

Not to mention there wasn't much room to incorperate a all-internal watercooling loop (unless you do some drastic case mods).

/end of rant. :)

Can I suggest to also look up the items on tigerdirect.com or any other website you like. Sometimes the price differences do make your wallet not get so light while getting the same product. Also I'd say only go for two sticks of RAM for 4g, thats all you will need.

Also forgot to mention, Ive recently built a computer and got me an EVGA Nvidia GTX 260, http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Sku=E145-0264. This piece of hardware has made my day in price and performance. Runs all games and applications smoothly plus I have my 32" Samsung tv hooked up and it looks alot better now. Sorry if the link isn't clickable my browser is going whacky.