Need help with my first build.

Going to build my own since I've looked around and pre-builts are a rip off. Was wondering how difficult it is to build your own, and if these parts look ok (is there anything I should put more money in or anything I can skimp out on?). My budget is around 1000 so thats why I picked what I did for the most part.

CASE - I like the look of it (simple and not tacky) and its relatively cheap. Some of the reviews made it sound not bad so I went with it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129021

PROCESSOR

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037

MOBO - going to be honest, This is probably what I know least about. Is there a better mobo i could get for my money that would support the rest of my hardware?

Hard Drive - Don't need one with lots of space, I have over 700gigs of space on two external

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144701

Power Supply

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139004

RAM - Seems good and came with a discount when u purchase this and 9600 together

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104001

CD/DVD Drive

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151155

Also...ummm... anything I'm forgetting?

Great choices. That's a great case, but you could save $50 and get something much less flashier with less cooling and be just fine, like a Cooler Master Centurion 5. If you plan to OC though, I'd stick with the 900.

I assume you're going to be using 64-bit Vista with that 4GB of RAM?

For the mobo, look at Asus and Gigabyte for good quality.

Woops... forgot to post the MOBO... this is the one I was thinking about:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128083

I'll check out that case as I probably wont be OCing. I have a friend that is going to help me build it who has built his own before so I think i should be ok.. And as for the ram, i picked the 4gigs because in combo w/ the 9600GT (theres a discount) it actually comes out cheaper than the 2gigs I had picked. I'll be using some form of vista.

Woops... forgot to post the MOBO... this is the one I was thinking about:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128083

I'll check out that case as I probably wont be OCing. I have a friend that is going to help me build it who has built his own before so I think i should be ok.. And as for the ram, i picked the 4gigs because in combo w/ the 9600GT (theres a discount) it actually comes out cheaper than the 2gigs I had picked. I'll be using some form of vista.

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Good choice there too. Just to make sure, if you don't use the 64-bit version of Vista, you're not going to be able to use all 4GB of that RAM. 32-bit OS's only recognize around 3GB. And at that point you'd be better off using 2GB in dual channel insteal of 3 sticks.