Is this gaming pc a good buy?

I found this company on Ebay that sells custom gaming pc's and they have a very good feedback rating and claim they've been doing it for a long time. They use high quality parts and will overclock for no extra charge since they already use high quality cooling fans and case.

So how does this sound for $1400 shipped?

INTEL CORE 2 DUO E8400@ 3.0GHZ (or overclocked if I want, to maybe 4ghz?

EVGA NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800GT 512MB VIDEOCARD (SLI CAPABLE)

ASUS P5N-D SLI NVIDIA NFORCE 750i PCI-E 2.0 MOTHERBOARD / FULL DUAL LANE 16X PCI-E 2.0 IN SINGLE VIDEOCARD OR SLI MODE

3 GIGS OCZ PLATINUM XTC EDITION DDR2800 PC6400 MEMORY WITH XTC HEATSPREADERS

400gb HD HITACHI

LITE ON 20X DUAL LAYER SATA DVD/RW

HEC ACE 580WATT 2X 12VOLT RAIL 35AMP SLI CERTIFIED POWER SUPPLY /

ARCTIC FREEZER 7 PRO HEATSINK & FAN

ANTEC 900 SERIES GAMER CASE WITH 5 FAN COOLING SYSTEM (3 WAY ADJUSTABLE FAN SPEED ON EACH FAN)

GENUINE MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP HOME OR VISTA HOME PREMIUM OPERATING SYSTEM

Should I go with the e8400? it's better in fps in games vs. the Q6600 which would cost more with this setup. If it was at 3.8 or 4ghz i'd think it'd be plenty fast for a while eventhough it's dualcore.

Sound's decent. Make it yourself though, save hundreds. cliffgnome

I don't know how...

Change that PSU o a Corsair VX550,even get a cheaper case if needbe just to not cheap out on the most important part of your system.Indestructible2

I agree, its all pretty decent for the price, but you should beef up your PS.

I don't know why people are saying that it's soo overpriced, build it yourself and so on. He said he doesn't know how and probably not comfortable with it. If you put that system together on newegg it comes to about $1250. Now he'll be paying $1400 for that from ebay that's including shipping and labour so that's a pretty good deal if you don't want to build yourself.

I don't see that newegg sells a 400GB Hitachi Drive. The only one they have on there is a IDE drive. Is that hard drive you get with the computer a SATA drive ?baddogjmh

I'm not sure if the 400gb is Hitachi b/c, I selected a different setup through this company that was cheaper, the original configuration had 2 250 gig Hitachi harddrives so I just assumed it was same brand...

I'm not going to build my own p/c, I honestly don't think I'd come out much cheaper by purchasing all these parts seperately b/c shipping for all the parts would add up as well and I'd be risking a lot of money b/c I wouldn't know what I would be doing, I could break something. $1400 gets me this prebuilt with these quality parts, so it sounds good to me in my situation.

Also does anyone know if programs and games are supposed to all start supporting quad core more than dual core anytime soon? B/c I don't want to spend all this money and then in 1 or 2 years be kicking myself when the dualcore e8400 is obsolete in quad core threaded games.