2150$ gaming system, need help with final decision

[lakefootball23]

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Monday, may 4

BUDGET RANGE: 2200-2300

SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Gaming, media, school

PARTS NOT REQUIRED: Keyboard, Mouse

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: New Egg

PARTS PREFERENCES: Intel? ( i'm not to good with brand names : /)

OVERCLOCKING: Yes , I think its SLI? I don't know what that is 🙁

MONITOR RESOLUTION: 1920x1200

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Need help on the fans that I have listed? I would like blue led ones because the antec 1200 comes with blue led fans with it. Also was wondering if my graphics card is good enough to support my 24' monitor. Final thought, do all the parts work together?

Cd/DVD drive- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136152

Case - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129043

Hard Drive - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136322

Monitor - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236033

Graphics card - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130446

Power supply - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371009

Ram - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145224

Motherboard - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131365

Processor -
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202

Operating System - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116488

Additional fans - 2x http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811999122

Grand total - 2,127

 

[Outlander_04]

I would skip buying vista .

We are a few months away from Windows 7 and the RC can be downloaded for free from May 5 . It will work for 13 months .

Buy a licencse for Win 7 then and forget vista

 

[lakefootball23]

Whats RC? The beta? And will it be able to do everything vista would be able to do? Plus i like playing older games ( orignal diablo, warcraft 3, starcraft) and i heard windows 7 wont paly those

 

[Outlander_04]

RC = release candidate
Windows 7 should play all the games Vista will play and it should play them with higher frame rates.

Theres also versions of Win7 where you have the option to run a virtualised XP environment .
That means you should be able to play anything that runs in XP as well .

On the tomshardware homepage there are news stories about Win7

 

[mlcloud]

Do you plan to overclock that i7? The stock cooler isn't the best thing out there...

 

[mansalim]

you SHOULD oc. it is easier these days and give you beter performance. Why not?
it is too easy my 8years old brother can do it