Need advice for my new PC

[asg102]

What will computer be used for mostly:
-Graphic design
-Web design
-Mild 3D
-Video editing
-Audio editing
-Mild Gaming I mostly only play counter-strike and games that sponsors send out for me to test
-Run multipule gaming servers at LAN

I also plan to overclock it a little.

Which case would you think is better and if I got the Cavalier would the 350 watt power supply be sufficient? Also I am not sure if thats a good powersupply I am getting, is there another would you would recommend in that price range. Another thing is the cooling fan for the cpu do you know any better in that price range or do you think that ones good enough.

Any advice is welcome!

1x Cooler Master Wave Master Case without Power Supply
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=11-119-023[/url]

OR

1x  Cooler Master Cavalier 3 Silver/Blue ATX Mid-Tower Case With Side Window
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-119-058&depa=1[/url]

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2x Xper Aluminum Hard Drive Cooler with two 60mm Cooling Fan, SILVER
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=11-999-034[/url]

2x CoolerMaster Blue 80mm Neon LED Fan
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=11-999-051[/url]

1x COOLER MASTER Round, 18-Inch, Floppy drive cable, Booted, 2-Connector 	
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=12-103-302[/url]

2x COOLER MASTER ROUND, 18-Inch, ATA133/100/66 IDE Cable
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=12-104-225[/url]
 
1x ABIT "IC7-G MAXII ADVANCE" i875P Chipset Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=13-127-152[/url]

1x BFG nVIDIA GeForce 6800 Video Card, 128MB DDR, 256-Bit, TV-Out/DVI, 8X AGP	
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=14-143-020[/url]

1x Antec 480W Power Supply with Blue LED Fan
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=17-103-914[/url]

1x Intel Pentium 4/ 3.2 GHz 800MHz FSB, 512K Cache, Hyper Threading Technology 
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=19-116-165[/url]

2x Geil Value Series 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=20-144-305[/url]

1x NEC 1.44MB Black Internal Floppy Drive
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=21-152-005[/url]

2x Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10,000RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model WD360GD
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=22-144-200[/url]

1x Logitech Elite Keyboard USB/ PS/2 104keys 
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=23-126-114[/url]

1x Logitech Blue Performance Optical Mouse PS2/ USB
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=26-104-151[/url]

1x Lite-On Black 16X DVD-ROM, Model SOHD-167T
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=27-131-118[/url]

1x NEC 16X Double Layer DVD±RW Drive, Black
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=27-152-032[/url]

1x Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum PCI Sound Card
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=29-102-163[/url]

1x Arctic Silver Premium Silver Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=35-100-007[/url]

1x Cooler Master JET 4 CPU FAN for Intel P4 478
LINK: [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=35-103-142[/url]

 

[Dc5e]

What's your budget? If you have plenty of money to spend, I would look into getting dual processors. It seems like you'll benefit from it alot. Possibly a dual xeon system or dual opterons if you really got money to spend.

 

[asg102]

I have around $1900

 

[Dc5e]

When i put my system together, i paid around $1900 also. You could probably do a similar setup to mine or get the Nocona's (Prescott core) with a Asus NCCH-DL. I'm not familiar with dual opterons so I can't really give you much advice on that.

 

[YoMatta]

You'll probably want 2gigs of RAM as well. With video/graphics editing you could find RAM being a serious bottleneck on a 1gig setup.

 

[attack]

I'll second the motion for the dual Xeon setup and 2gb of RAM.

For your HDD's I'd say 74gb raptor instead of 2 36gb's, the one 74gb has a much better seek time over 2 36gb's raid'd and it doesn't lose much in terms of bandwidth over the 36gb drives.

Also the HDD coolers arn't necessary IMO, use the cash elsewere.

On a side note...was gonna bash coolermaster as a case choice...but that second one is pretty damn sweet looking and functional...and half the price I thought it would be...the first one is still a bit overpriced though.