Building My First Gaming PC

I currently have 4, will get another 2 soon. My system pushed 750 watts max load right now, if I add another card it would be close to 1k watts, but that's even difficult to do.

Yes, it should work without problems. You'd be seeing a 20-22A maximum power draw from the +12V rail.With 27A available, you would be safely within the limits of the PSU.

To play it safe though, I recommend the Antec EA430 or Corsair 400CX.

Well I've been pretty busy yesterday and didn't expect to see this many post in 1 day. I didn't buy a GPU for now and I'm going to use the 8600 GT and then upgrade if I really need too. Also I bought everything already and I went with the Basiq. Well when I get home today I'll try to reread all the post in depth. Thank you for all the help everyone.

glad to help man think you will like it alot

Well since I only got the 430W PSU will I need to upgrade power supply when I upgrade my GPU to something like Radeon HD4670

Nope.

And FYI, you can go for any card upto an HD 4850 without issues.

I just bought that same combo, but for general use. The case is very large and very easy to keep looking pretty good on the inside. I've learned that the mobo only supports 95 TW processors and that the amd 6000+ is a 125 TW. I don't have my processor, it is comming a day late so i'll find out about that tomorrow. I'm ripping the DVD drive out of my old dell(the one i'm replacing) so its free. Already have a mouse keyboard and monitor(need to buy a new monitor though but i'll get around to that later).
Bought this heatsink. Its not much but it will work for my purposes.


Here is the computer as it stands right now. The dvd drive and processor are not installed.


I'm going to use 7 RC1 as the OS until 7 is released so i can buy it(vista driver work in 7 so far).

My gaming pc's specs are in my sig and now i'm looking to buy a 1 tb drive for it.


EDIT:
As for the monitor, i recently bought this 23 in for my gaming pc. When I bought it it was $20 cheaper but I highly recommend it if you can extend your budget a little bit more. $40 more for 1080P

Don't think that was quite nesseary, unless you bought and OEM processor.

Very cool, thanks for the update.

The Processor did not come with a heat sink.

Update:
I got my processor and as of right now 7 RC1 is installing. No problems with the 95TW max as of yet, but if it melts, I'll let you know.

Gflo are you talking about my original post of parts??
Well I bought my computer and the parts arrived yesterday and we built it today. Still waiting on my monitor (Arriving on Tuesday because of weekend and Memorial day ) Also, I might not take the 8600 so should I just stick with the HD 4650 or are there better deals around the $60s.

The $4670 is a significant improvement over the 4650, for $10 more.

O my mistake I think I meant to say 4670 not 4650. Anyways http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161262 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102820. Or do you have another suggestion for another brand.

I like the saphire, good pricing and decent quality.
The brand won't matter too much, there are few "horrible" brands, going with the cheapest won't kill your computer, after all, ATI is ultimately the one making the chip.

Stay away from Basiq line of antec. The higher end antecs are good to excellent, but the basiqs are typically CWT based, which CWT's lower end is terrible.

Too late already bought the Basiq Antec :/

The Basiqs are not CWT-made but are FSP and Delta units, and while they lack the high efficiency of the Earthwatts units (now also made by Delta; some are still Seasonic but getting rarer by the minute), they are still a fantastic choice for a budget or mid-range system. Certainly much better than most other units in the same price range.

And FYI, CWT does not make any PSUs for Antec anymore. Especially not after the fiasco over the use of Fuhjyyu caps in the CWT-produced SmartPower 2.0 and TruePower 2.0 series, among others.