First game rig. Planned rig. please comment and help

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i'm just about to build my first computer EVER.

here are the planned specs, some of them i know ill be getting and some of them, i'm not too sure:

Ram:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-114-OC

HDD:
Either 1, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-138-SE

or two in RAID0 (depends if i can stretch the budget) i'm only 14(almost 15) you see:)

Motherboard:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-124-GI

or

should i get a motherboard specially devoted to gaming? (please note i would like to run sli in the future, maybe even tri)
like

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...80i (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (wow long adress:))

Video Card (here comes the muscle:cool:)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-008-ZT (or should i go for EVGA?)

case:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-065-AN&tool=3

CPU:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-192-IN

PSU:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-018-OC

CPU cooler:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-015-AS&tool=3

optical drives:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-001-OK (to install RAID0, or i might just create a custom windows installation DVD)

(PLEASE can someone give me link to/reccomend a good CD/DVD drive, as there's just so many to choose from, max budget for this is £30, throw in blu ray if you can:))

and we can't forget thermal paste now can we,
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=AC-000-AC&tool=3

with the OS (windows vista) i hope this comes up to just over £800

if not, I'll have to het the begging engine revved up

please fell free to comment on any compenent,

but i would really appreciate if you could offer other compenents at the same price, as i am on a budget(which is why i'm not going for EXTREME edition of anything):)
 
Just curious Kenny, few people been saying that about OCZ of late, any particular reason or way in which theyre dodgy?
Ive got a pcpower&cooling which is a branch of OCZ and its fine, although the first one I received I did have to RMA as faulty, is this what you and others are meaning? theyre sending out a lot faulty ones?
Sorry to hijack your thread hazzacool :)

i don't mind:) i was gonna ask the exact same quetion, lol. ehy is OCZ not a good choice, and would that PSU handle the gtx 260 in dual sli?
 
yeah ocz just done have a very good rep as the say in the power supply market like they do in the ram section...

just a lot go faulty after a while mate :) so trying to help you out so you dont have to get a new one quicker than you think lol

in sli the gtx 260 and all the rest of his hardware shouldt go above 400-450 watts so the 520 will be more than capable man ;)

Thanks:)
 
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