$800 Build

[zapian_]

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing?
Arma 2, Empire Total War, and casual WoW
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
$800, yes.
3) Where do you live?
California
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.
Everything.
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
Speakers and KB/Mouse only.
6) Will you be overclocking?
cpu only using the stock cooler so it's not that extreme.
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
22" 1680x1050
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
before the end of this month.
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
None.
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license?
Win7 RC1

I'm in extremely tight budget, have set an $800 budget for now due to my current financial situation. I came up with these parts from Newegg - all for $828 shipped. Just wanna know if you guys have better alternatives and if the E6300 will bottleneck HD4870?

Acer 22" - 159.99
HD4870 1gb - 149.99
Antec Earthwatts 500w - 69.99
G.Skill 4gb - 54.99
GIGABYTE GA-EP43-UD3L - 79.99
WD 320GB - 54.99
E6300 Wolfdale - 87.99
DVD CD/Burner - 26.99
Centurion 534 Computer Case - 44.99

 

[engiNURD]

For gaming, I doubt the lower cache of the Pentium Dual Core E6300 would bottleneck the HD4870. Its already clocked at 2.8Ghz stock, but a nice bump to 3.5Ghz wouldn't hurt, and should be easy (I'm guessing here).

The rest of the build looks fine. See if you can order any of the parts from Amazon.com to save on tax and shipping charges.

 

[PC_User]

All the parts you picked are fine. I agree with enginurd on ordering from Amazon to avoid the 9.25% sales tax.

 

[engiNURD]

... soon to be 9.75%.

 

[zapian_]

Right on, thanks! I'm ordering them soon.

I'll check out some of the stuff from Amazon as well.

 

[PC_User]

... soon to be 9.75%.

I thought it was going to be 10.25%...

 

[engiNURD]

Depends where you are.

@OP, check the hot deals subforum for that eWiz HD4870 1GB for $128 shipped deal (sizzle15 or something like that)... if its still on, go for it!