Building A New System Advice Required

[BartMan01]

Hi guys new to the forum and looking for a bit advice.
Im building a new PC/Media Center using the following components -
Thermaltake VE2000SWA Armour LCS Super Tower - Silver

BFG 800W UK/PFC Approved PSU

Asus Striker Extreme nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA1065)

BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)

Samsung SpinPoint T HD401LJ 400GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM

Hauppauge WinTV HVR-3000 Freeview TV Tuner

LiteON LH-20A1P-487C 20x DVD±RW x12 Ram Dual Layer DVD-Writer - Retail

Microsoft Remote Keyboard for Windows XP Media Center Edition - OEM

My question is the motherboard seems to be a bit pricey, is there another which would do the same job at a more pocket friendly price and would the memory still be ok for the suggested board ?It would have to have the dual PCI-E as i hope to add another graphices card at some point.
The reason i ask is because the price of the build seems to be getting a bit out of control.
It will be used mainly for playback of HD/BLURAY content but i would also like to play the occasional game.
Thanks for the advice.

 

[Will_3rd]

The PSU is overkill, Corsair 520/620HX is more than enough

If you want SLI, the Asus P5N-E is pretty good

 

[tsj]

The ASUS Striker board is great but as mentioned the ASUS P5N-E will do the same job so you may to go for that as its cheaper... Again with the PSU change to a Corsair HX... 520watts will be more than enough unless you want to go for the 620watts to be future proof. Your going to need a Blu-ray/HD-DVD drive too if your planning to play movies... unless your doing the unthinkable and downloading them illegally

 

[BartMan01]

Cheers guys ive taken your advice and changed the PSU to the corsair HX 620w (gets a great review) and also thinking of changing the motherboard to this bundle which will save me around £100 and seems more geared towards a media pc, whats your thoughts?
Intel Core 2 DUO LGA775 E6600 2.40GHz Retail / Asus P5W DH Deluxe / 2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C4 DDR2 Dual Channel Kit - Bundle.