need help building my first computer :D

[nibblit]

Hi guys, I have been wating to build my own pc for quite some time now but haven't got around to it due to school/money. Now that the Aus. Government is handing out free cash and massive rebates on computers, well yeah, time to build a pc
I just need help checking over my components and seeing if everything is compatible and that i haven't missed any hardware that is important.

Here is a list of what i want to buy:

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium64bit(OEM)

Antec 850W TruePower Quattro ATX & EPS 12V Power Supply, Modular Cable
   
Antec TWELVE HUNDRED Full Tower Gaming Case NO PSU
   
Western Digital 1TB SATAII 32M 3GB/s(WD1001FALS)
      
Leadtek WinFast 280GTX 1G GDDR3 PCI E Silent Fansink
      
GSkill 4G(2x2048MB) DDR3 1600 PC12800CL7-7-7-18(F3-12800CL7D-4GBPI)
      
Asus DRW-22B1ST 22x DVDRW SATA Retail Black NERO8
      
Asus RAMPAGE-Extreme X48 LGA775 DDR3 M/B      

(already have an intel E8400 dual core CPU)

If you have any suggestions on anything else that should be bought or changed please let me know.

Thanks in advance, nibblit.

[nibblit]

hmm, no replies yet......i just need to know if it will all work together, then i'll buy it.

Thanks

[chevronman]

How long can you wait? USB 3.0 is coming out the first of next year and it will read and write at the same time at incredible speeds. That along with a flash memory hard drive for gaming and the HD you seggested for storge would be a great system. By then ddr3 will have come down in price alot and I bet a 295gtx video card will be reasonable also. Can you wait another year? Good luck.

[nibblit]

Umm, at the moment no, because i don't know if the government will still be giving discounts out, and I sort of need it this year lol. So will all my hardware work?

Ohh and thanks for you reply

[chevronman]

What kind of budget do you have? The antec 900 is also a good box plus thermalrite has some nise boxes that would savw you some money unless you plan on having several drives or several HDs and unless you are going to run sli and multiple drives a 630watt modular psu would be plenty. I'm assuming you want to play games with you unit. You might think of a 80 gig ssd for games and your 1tb for storage. The ram looks great, you might also want to consider a HD4870 video card it uses gddr5 tech. it also comes in a 1gig

[nibblit]

well, im getting it for half price, so i might as well go all out while i can. Thanksfor the suggestion annyway

[xvampyricx]

I'm pretty sure everything would work..
Although last I remember, DDR3 RAM is only compatible with the X58 Chipset & the new Intel core i7 processors.
So you'd have to get DDR2 RAM, not DDR3.