Looking for opinions

[Rumple]

Ok so far i have:

Thermaltake Armor Series Case w/25cm side fan
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16811133021

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 Stepping Kentsfield 2.40GHz
http://clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=CA1938452

And left over from my last system i have:

Enermax Liberty ELT500AWT 500 watt PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817194003

Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB SATA Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822144701

EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR Geforce 8800GTS 640MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814130071

Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic Sound Card

Going to order the rest on Friday. Here is what i have picked out:

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L = $94.99
http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16813128059

Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 = $109.99 w/$30 MIR
http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16820146565

Samsung 18x DVD Burner w/Lightscribe SATA Model SH-S183L = $33.99
http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16827151141

Microsoft Windows Vista 64bit Home Premium = $111.99
http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16832116204

I do not plan on overclocking at the moment maybe later in the year towards Xmas time i will buy a new CPU Heatsink and Fan for that purpose. I also plan on getting a 2nd hard drive later on and possibly dual booting windows XP if i dont like Vista 64. However it is inevitable that i will have to go to Vista at some point before xmas since i REALLY want to play Crysis in its full glory which is pretty much why im upgrading from my current system to this. And the fact that i had one of my buddies offer me $900 bucks for my current rig.

My budget for the new system for the parts i need is $600. But i have to buy my friend a new Gfx card, Hard Drive, and PSU. However if i can fit it into the budget i wouldnt mind just leaving him with my PSU and Hard drive and buying new but i just cant seem to fit it in. I HAVE to get him an 8600GT card but the rest he does not really care about.

EVGA 8600GT = $114.99 with a $15 MIR.
http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16814130085

Rosewill RD400-2 for his PSU = $31.99
http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16817182074

Western Digital Caviar SE 200GB Sata Hard Drive = $54.99
http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16822144416

So basically im asking if you could put a better system together with the $600 i have including the extra parts i have to put back into my old system. Ideally what i wanted to do was get the Corsair 520HX for my new system and leave him with the Enermax which is MUCH better than the Rosewill but i cant fit it into my budget.

 

[Slugbait]

Originally posted by: Rumple
I also plan on getting a 2nd hard drive later on and possibly dual booting windows XP if i dont like Vista 64.

You'll have to FDisk and start over to do that. Vista can't be installed first. Besides, your second hard drive would be better used for your swap file. I'm also going to dual-boot my machine...my Raptor is partitioned now, and the second, 30G partition is empty, waiting for Vista when I'm ready to install it.

I have the Armor without the side fan...dunno why they have that, considering it would appear to have considerably higher intake than exhaust this way.

Otherwise, everything looks nice.