[Lunarhawk]

Right now this is already costing more than I planned, so this is the best dual core I can afford at the moment. You might be right that 6 months down the road I'll want a better one, and then I may be able to afford to upgrade.

I already have a 250gb EHD to put other stuff like downloaded TV shows on, though admittedly there's only 20gb or so free on it. Game wise I don't play many computer games, more of a console man myself, just getting this high endish or so thing for the few I do - so I'm not worried about running out of memory for them.

The motherboard on the other hand, now that I read some more of the reviews for it, seems to have problems I probably wouldn't be able to fix myself because I'm not that great with computers; I'll look around for one around the same price...680i is 70 bucks more which I really can't afford right now, plus I don't plan to overclock much if at all.

As for Vista, I figure in a year or two all the games that will be coming out will need divx 10 so I might as well get it now.

And lastly for the power supply, getting just a 650W one from thermal take would double the cost of it...but you maybe right in that I shold look into getting at least a 600W. I may not though, this one actually seems pretty nice with the amount of connectors and such, PFC, etc. Plus reading the few reviews for it, others are saying it powers PCs that look better than mine without problems.