1st build - looking for feedback on selected components

SpikeShades

Hello – I’m building my first gaming system, which happens to be my first build period, and I was hoping I could get some feedback. My selected hardware (based on sharkyextreme.com's March Extreme Gaming PC Buyer's Guide) is below and I have a few questions:

1. Are there any incompatibilities?
2. Is there one component that is an obvious bottleneck or overkill?
3. Considering budget, should I stay with two graphics cards and the Core 2 Duo E6700 or should I go with one graphics card and get the Core 2 Extreme X6800?
4. Any other case fan recommendations that are 120mm, LED, and quiet?

Thank you in advance for all your input and feedback, it is greatly appreciated! Spike

Hardware - Supplier - Model #

Case - Cooler Master - RC-830-SSN2-GP (Stacker 830, Silver)
Cooling - Thermalright - Ultra-120 eXtreme
DVD Burner - Lite-On - LH-20A1S (20x DVD+RW/-RW)
DVD Rom - ASUSTeK - DVD-E616A3T
Fan - Scythe - S-Flex SFF21E (120mm for CPU cooler)
Fan - SilenX - IXP-74-14B (120mm Blue LED for case)
Graphics card - eVGA - 768-P2-N831-AR X 2 for SLI (GeForce 8800 GTX)
Hard Drive - Seagate - ST3320620AS X 2 for RAID 0 (Barracuda 7200.10)
Memory - PDP Patriot - PDC22G6400LLK 4 Gb total (eXtreme Performance DDR2-800)
Mice - Logitech - G7 (USB RF Wireless Laser Mouse)
Motherboard - ASUSTeK - Striker Extreme
Operating System - Windows - XP Pro (OEM)
Power Supply - ThermalTake - W0131RU (850W Modular PSU)
Processor - Intel - BX80562Q6600 (Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield Quad Core, if price drops in July)
Sound Card - Creative - Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
Speakers - Logitech - Z-5500

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sickofsoyo · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:22 pm Post subject:

looks like a kick-ass system. Only thing I would change is the power supply. I would suggest getting something a bit bigger with all the hardware, and something a bit better than thermaltake, such as Enermax, or PC power and cooling. Look for 1 kw, especially since you have a caud core, and 2 8800 GTX's. IMO 2 is a waste right now as there is going to be a refresh in december, You may want to go with one card for now, and then get 2 of the new ones later on. I love patriot memory, and everything else looks good.
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P4 3.2ghz
lanparty pro875b
Enermax Liberty 500 Watt Modular PSU
Sony 52X CD-RW
Samsung 120gig SATA hdd
Maxtor 100gig SATA hdd
Powmax Demon case
ATI X800 XL AIW, 525 Core, 525 mem
Creative X-Fi Platinum
PDP systems Patriot Ram 2,3,2,5 timings

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