Atk Spade-thanks for the input, yeah the ram should probably be upgraded, ill look at those sites a bits for fans

vnfultra-I might go witht the third one you posted, possibly

I think that g.skill is some of the cheaper cas2 memory. It seems to be good stuff, serious ocer's get their top of the line ram.

If you want a little better ram, here are two kits that are fast, and have heatspreaders.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220060
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145450

They should be similar in performance to the g.skill, but they look nicer, and have heatspreaders.

Here's what I've got so far, if you guys think changes are in order let me know:
Case: RAIDMAX Virgo ATX-811P 430W PSU
$53

Motherboard- Chaintech VNF4/Ultra Socket 939 NVidia nForce 4
$92

Processor-AMD Anthlon 3000+ Venice Socket 939
$148

Hard Drives- Seagate 80 Gig 8MB Cache
$62

Seagate 150 Gig 8 MB Cache
$88

Video Card: MSI RX 800-TD256 E Radeon X800 256 MB
$236

TV Card: Sabrent SBT TVFM-PCF Interface
$28.49

CD-RW/DVD: Light on
$33

Monitor: LCD 17" Polyview 10ms
$209

PSU: Vantec Ion 2 Van ATX 12V 460W
$68

Operating System Windows XP Home
$85

Extra fans: ???
$10-30

Keyboard/Mouse: ???
$15-50

The whole system should cost around $1250 or so if I keep it the same.

You forgot the ram, but you apparantly have it included in your total price.

What is the reasoning behind having 2 hd's? Just the extra storage, safety of having 2 drives?

It looks good to me so far though.

Yeah, I forgot the Ram but it will be:
Corsair XMS 1 GB 2 x512MB 184-Pin DDr SDRAM
$116

Two basicly improves the performance, its' convienent, if something happens to one you still have the other.

Ok, that's some good ram.

I see the point to having 2 drives. It would be handy at times. I'm not sure that it'd be faster though, what did you mean by that? If you do a raid 0 array it's faster, but you need identical drives for that, and if one drive dies, the whole system goes down.

Yeah I was thinking RAID but I forgot you had to use the same two HD's, nvm about the faster.

So is everything decided now? Are you still using 2 hd's, or just one larger one?

Yeah, everthing is ready, all I have to do now is play the waiting game until the money. I am going to go with two hd's probably just because it's handy, thanks for the help guys, especially vnfultra, you were a big help.