Thoughts on New Scientific Computing Setup

[meteo]

I'm putting together a new computer. Usually I've just made gaming computers but this new one has to be able to handle some serious data analysis, some modeling, and of course a little gaming. Any thoughts are welcomed, I'm a student so I want to keep this around 1000. Not sure yet if I'm going to be overclocking this computer, might want to try to take my AMD up to 2.2 or 2.4 GHz nothing crazy.

RAIDMAX Elite Mid Tower Computer Case $20.75
DFI LANPARTY nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD $129.99
XFX Geforce 6800GS 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card $195.00
XCLIO GOODPOWER 500W ATX 500W Power Supply $48.00
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core $296.00
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 2-3-2-5 $224.49
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s $105.00
+ Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB 7200 RPM (from old computer)
LITE-ON Black IDE Combo Drive Model SOHC-5236V BK RTL $29.99
ThermalRight XP-90 $27.99

 

[synergyo1]

I would go with a different PSU. Aspire is crap.

XCLIO is good if you want to pay around $50.

 

[meteo]

Thanks, kind of hard to find power supply reviews.

 

[synergyo1]

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1000883

Here is a thread that lists recommended PSUs

 

[macrospect]

Thanks, kind of hard to find power supply reviews.

Its hard to find reviews on crappy PSU's, decent ones on the other hand have tons of reviews. Look for OCZ or PCP ones.