It really depends on what PC you are building. Picking out the proper parts is usually more complicated than building the thing. The main thing when building, especially for the fist time, taking your time and reading manuals and guide make it much easier.

Just a few thing, a 1200w PSU is way overkill for 99.9999% of PC's. Intel Extreme CPU's are also way over priced, the only thing they have going for them is the unlocked multiplier, which is great for OC'ing, but not worth it IMHO.

Also all motherboards come with built in ethernet, so the network card is also unnecessary, now there could be a reason you need it, but most do not.

What motherboard are you looking at?

Are you a dentist?

ch5richards

Yeah, Im a dentist. lol. I am looking at the motherboard Asus Stirker II 780i. Okay, so I would like to overclock at some time so should I stick with the Extreme quad core? Also, I would like to have it hooked up wirelessly, so wouldnt I need a wireless card like I put in above?

If I go dual gtx 280 in sli should I stick with that 1200w or go lower? Also, does the sli cable come with the cards or do you typically have to buy that seperately? Also, any info on what type of therma paste to use when mounting the cooling unit?

A complete novice here. I watched some youtube videos and it looks pretty simple. Here is what I plan on building

Thermaltake Armor Case, 12OO W Power supply, Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650, Thermaltake V1 Cooling fan, 500gb Hard Drive, DDR2 4 Gb mem, 2xGTX 280 in SLI, 2 DVD Burners, Intel Pro network card, Vista 64 bit OS. I figure I could build this for half of what some of these computer sites are asking for but HONESTLY, is it as easy as the videos show? As for things like thermal paste, what kind should I use? And after building this thing, do you just turn it on and install Vista, or do I have to configure some settings in the BIOS? Thanks for the help. I would pay someone a hundred bucks (no joke), if they could be my tech support while building this thing.

im kinda in the same boat. I was looking at these two and wondered if anyone had one of these and loved it.

LCD Monitor Sceptre 24" LCD 16:9 Wide Screen HDTV Video & PC Monitor Support Resolution 1920x1200

Viewsonic 24" Widescreen Q241wb TFT LCD Monitor 1920x1200 /w 6ms Video Response

ok so I will drop the cooling kit and just stick with the fans, I planned on getting the gtx 280 or maybe 2 of them in sli. Ok why would I have to get Vista 64? Like I said, I will get 64, the price isnt the issue, I just wanted to know why. Thanks for being so nice ^.^

Money is not an issue but I dont want to throw money away that I dont have to. Building a computer for the first time.

Here are the main components:

Processor ( [=== Quad Core ===] Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core Processor QX9650 (4x 3.0GHz/12MB L2 Cache/1333FSB)

Processor Cooling ( ULTRA ChillTec Thermo Electric CPU Cooler

Motherboard ( [SLI] Asus Striker II Formula nForce® 780i SLI Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, IEEE-1394 3-Way PC 3-Way SLI & EPU Technology )Memory ( 4 GB [1 GB X4] DDR2-800 PC6400 Memory

Hard Drive ( 1 TB HARD DRIVE [Serial-ATA-II, 3Gb, 7200 RPM, 32M Cache] )

I havent played LoTRO in a while but I really liked it and just wanted to see if this AoC game was comparible or maybe even better. Dont care how it compares to WoW, I gave up that game a loonnnggg time ago.