First Time Building a PC, need opinion

Just want to get a feel on how this set up is, total cost is about $600.

Case: HEC Blitz Black Steel Edition ATX Mid Tower Computer Chassis Gaming Case w/ Front Blue LED 120mm Fan & Top 120mm Fan

HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Motherboard: MSI 880GM-E41 AM3 AMD 880G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Graphics Card: HIS H685F1GD Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity

DVD Drive: ASUS Black IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model DVD-E818A4/BLK/B/GEN

PSU: ePOWER TVPS550 550W ATX12V Power Supply

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDT90ZFBGRBOX

My recommended Wattage was about 475, also considering everything so far, what type of monitor should I look at getting?

Like I said, first time doing this, is all of this going to be compatible? As far as I know everything is AM3. I have no clue how to build it, but I'll cross tat bridge when I got there.

Any final thoughts? Like is it pretty good? I know both that graphics card is up there, and 8GB DDR3 should be plenty.

oh btw

Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Desktop Memory Model F3-8500CL7D-8GBRL

swapped power supply for a 650 now

Please list your updated pick for the power supply. One thing you never want to "cheap" on is the powersupply. The epower one has "issues" on Newegg's feedback.

If you want to read about power supplies you should start at the best place I know of: http://www.jonnyguru.com/index.php

Hope this helps and

jameson627 said:

oh btw

Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Desktop Memory Model F3-8500CL7D-8GBRL

Click to expand...

Why are you choosing memory that was fast at the beginning of 2007?

Go 1600Mhz not 1066.

Also your budget will allow for a P67 board and 2500K cpu instead of the AM3 which will be faster.