New mid-high range computer

Aisengard

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Well, my computer is somehow 3 years old already. I skimped on some parts last time around because I was a new college student, but now that I've got an internship and a lot of money to spare, I'm ready to go all-out (within reason).

Here's what how my new build currently stands, parts with prices next to them are ones I've already purchased:

CPU: Intel Q9450 $320
CPU Cooling: Xigmatech 1283
Case: Antec P182
Case fans: Some extra Yate Loons, perhaps?
Video Card: BFG 8800GT $250 (bought in December to replace my 6800GT)
RAM: GSkill 2x2GB DDR2 - 1000 $80
Motherboard: ???
Hard Drive 1: 74 GB Raptor (taken from my current computer)
Hard Drive 2: 750 GB Samsung SpinPoint F1 $119
DVD Burner: ???
Power Supply: ???

So, obviously I need advice on the motherboard and power supply.

For the power supply, I would like to spend less than $100, but would like it to be rather efficient, and with very low noise. I also don't want overkill, just something that will support moderate overclocking without me having to worry about it.

The motherboard, I don't want SLI, and I don't need anything fancy. I just want something that will work with my CPU out of the box (as I don't have any older hardware that will boot up with it, to update the BIOS), and will overclock a good amount. Obviously I'm looking for a pretty good overclock here (3.6 GHz would be ideal), and want a motherboard that won't bottleneck me.

The DVD burner, I know nothing about. Don't need anything fancy, no lightscribe, just something that will burn DVDs.

Thanks in advance for the help. If there's anything else I should look out for please let me know, I've been out of the loop for a while and am still not completely caught up with all the new hardware.
 

Aisengard

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Thanks roguestar, any reasons on that motherboard specifically? I've heard that some of the boards don't automatically recognize the 45nm CPUs right out of the box, is this one going to do that? And there is a comment there that says the board doesn't allow you to change the CPU voltage...that would put quite a damper on my overclocking capabilities.

That PSU looks great.
 

DSF

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I have that board, and whoever said you can't change the CPU voltage has no clue what he or she is doing.
 

TidusZ

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In order to access advanced bios options on the Gigabyte boards you have to press Ctrl+F1 at the bios screen. Gives plenty of options to mess around with once you've done this.