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Building a new system

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strungout180

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What do you think of this system? Does anyone have any recommendations or changes which I should look into?

Enermax CS-3051L-S3A (Silver) Aluminum Mid ATX Tower Case 350watt powersupply
Vantec 80mm stealth case fan
ASUS A7N8X Delux motherboard
AMD XP 2500+ Barton
Kingston 2 x 256 ddr3200 400mhz ram
ATI Radeon 9500pro 128mb
Lite-on 52x24x52 cd-rw
Lite-on 16x dvd-rom
Western Digital 80gb 7200prm 8mb cache
Samsung 753df Flat 17"

The Total comes to 1500 cdn after taxes. This system is for college so it is going to act as my major source of entertainment for movies, games, music, etc. Any recommendations or possible changes to either save costs would be welcome. Im currently looking to purchase this system within the next week and a half or so. Thanks for all help and advice
 
Is one case fan going to be enought to keep everything cool? I would recommend at least 2 sucking air in and 1 exhaust fan.

Instead of the Samsung 17" LCD have you priced the Viewsonic VP171b 17" LCD? I just purchased one for my new system and its great. I has a 16 ms total pixel refresh rate and is great for gaming. The color reproduction is great and the monitor is equipped with 2 analog connections and 1 DVI connection.

Other than those two items, I can't think of anything else. I can't help on the AMD CPU and nForce motherboard since I use Intel.
 
* Im not entirely sure about the powersupply, I believe that it is an enermax.

* The case comes with one exhaust fan on the side and I will be adding the 1 intake fan will this be enough? Im not planning on doing any overclocking with this system.

* With the monitor I should have put that it was a crt not LCD. I would love an LCD but cannot afford one unfortantly.

Thanks for all the suggestions and keep them coming.
 

the power supply provided with this case is made by powerup.

Ive also have now being looking into the epox EP-8RGA+ mother board instead of the ASUS A7N8X Delux, how will the motherboard compare in terms of quality and reliability? What about the onboard video? will the Gforce 4 mx440 onboard be comparable to the radeon 9500pro? Or will I be suffering a large difference in gaming quality between the two cards? Thanks for all help provided so far
 
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