Ordering this early January

[.Wiggles.]

ordering this in January. I think it's pretty solid it'll run me around 2 g. Any suggestions?

ABIT Fatal1ty AN8-SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
Thermaltake XaserV WinGo V8000A Silver Chassis: 1.0 mm Aluminum, Front Door: Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
NEC Black IDE/ATAPI DVD Burner Model ND-3550A - OEM
LITE-ON Black IDE Combo Drive Model SOHC-5236V BK RTL - Retail
Thermaltake VENUS 12 80mm Ball Cooling Fan/Heatsink - Retail
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 16mb Hard Drive - OEM
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Platinum System Memory Model OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K - Retail
ASPIRE ATX-AS600W-RD ATX12V/ EPS12V 600W Power Supply - Retail
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA4400CDBOX - Retail
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 8 (7.1) Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - Retail
Leadtek WinFast PX7800GTX TDH myVIVO Extreme 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail

 

[Johnnyscans]

asus for mobo and evga for vid card, but this is purely my personal preference. people may also have mixed opinions about the power supply. once again going on personal preference, for a system that expensive, i woudl definately throw in an enermax,antec, fsp, or pcpower and cooling, just to be on the safe side.

that aside thou, the bad boys gonna fly

 

[FalconSS]

id go for a different case. ive got a thermaltake xaserIII and though I love it... it is difficult to carry around with you. I'd go for the tsunami or if you can afford it the tai-chi.

 

[.Wiggles.]

tai chi.. nah way to expensive for my tastes (and affordability) thanks i was going to get a antec truepower 2.0 but 600w seems more powerfull but i would trust antec over the aspire i have now.

thanks
ne more suggestions?

 

[.Wiggles.]

another questions should i buy the X-Fi ($113) or just stay with the extra sound card that comes with the motherboard (free)?

 

[PWMK2]

another questions should i buy the X-Fi ($113) or just stay with the extra sound card that comes with the motherboard (free)?

That really depends on whether or not you're an absolute sound fanatic. Personally, I do lots of audio mixing and find no discernable difference between something like an audigy or an X-fi and decent onboard sound. The X-Fis, especially, are just so expensive... I don't believe that the Abit mobos give you an extra sound card, though, that's actually just a card with the ports for plugging your speakers in. The actual sound mixing is done on the mobo, as it's onboard. I think it should be fine for 99% of the people out there. If I were you, I'd save that $133 and get an extra HDD, or more memory, or... the list goes on.