May order later today. Please comment.

[hxcjohn]

RAIDMAX Tornado ATX-238WR Black SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail 25.99 After rebate

BIOSTAR TFORCE TA790GX 128M AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail 94.99 After rebate

COOLMAX CTI-600B 600W ATX12V Power Supply - Retail 29.99 After rebate

CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-6400C5 - Retail 19.99 After rebate

AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.8GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Black Processor Model HDZ720WFGIBOX - Retail
Comboed with
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM 222.98

Totals 393.94. Any thoughts? I will be running Ubuntu 8.10/Windows of some flavor. At some point i'll get a nice graphics card for it.

EDIT: motherboard typo.

 

[affinitydesigns]

I would get a better power supply. A name brand, a bad power supply can take out an entire system. It's not worth the risk for a few dollars.

 

[n3f0ur]

All good except for the psu. This is a better one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817174038

What gpu do you have in mind? You may need a larger psu.

 

[hxcjohn]

I would get a better power supply. A name brand, a bad power supply can take out an entire system. It's not worth the risk for a few dollars.

I thought CoolMax was a good brand.

All good except for the psu. This is a better one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817174038

What gpu do you have in mind? You may need a larger psu.

So thats two votes against the PSU. Is 460 enough to run all that? I may add another HD and will be overclocking. I could get a secondary PSU if needed for a graphics card. Any other PSU suggestions?

 

[hxcjohn]

This one decent?

hec X-Power Pro 650 650W Continuous @ 40°C ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Power Supply - Retail

 

[xPandaPanda]

hec X-Power Pro 650 650W is okay, but telling what graphics card you have in mind would help. with the given information and told you'll but in a nice future graphics card this would suit you:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139004

 

[hxcjohn]

I like that suggestion xpandapanda. Whatever graphics card i get will be 200 or below. Whatever the best performance for the money in that range.

 

[affinitydesigns]

I would probably go with the Nvidia GTX 260 Core 216 for the GPU. You can easily find those for under $200 and have one of the best cost to performance ratios.

I also agreed with xpandapanda's PSU recommendation. Only downside is it doesn't leave you much overhead for adding more graphics cards in SLI down the road, but that's all in what you want to do.