Building my own computer ( with little experience )

[Newbie]

Ok so i am going to be building my own computer granted i do not have any experience in this, however im a quick learner and have been doing extesive research on what type of specs my system should have. However i still am a bit cautious and would like some outside imput on if my parts are a wise choice and if they are all compatible. Little FYI my system will be used 90% of the time to be gaming other than that just basic browsing and playing some music.

 

My budget is around $900 and i know you can build quite a decent machine as a friend of mine had one built for $700 and it blew my away by its performnace. I've been looking at parts on tiger direct.com and I'm thinking of going with a barebones kit from them as this would allow me to be positive that all the parts will fit and work together, any input on that? The kit im looking at is this

Intel H55HC NZXT Barebones Kit - Intel H55HC Motherboard, Intel Core i5 650 CPU, Corsair Dominator 4GB RAM, Lite-On Internal 24X DVDRW, Seagate 7200.12 1TB HD, NZXT Tempest Case, Corsair TX650W 650W at TigerDirect.com

theres the link and heres the item number in case the link doesnt work c11-1029

think thats a decent deal? also what graphics card would you recommend to use with that system?

Edited October 18, 2010 by Newbie

[Newbie]

Ok couldnt figure out how i edited that post, i know i fail haha but this is the graphics card i was looking at just wondering if it was compatible with the above listed parts

EVGA 768-P3-1360-TR GeForce GTX 460 Video Card - 768MB GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0, Dual DVI, Mini HDMI, SLI, DirectX 11, Fermi at TigerDirect.com theres the link

and heres the part number E14-0460

[Dalo Harkin]

I personally would not buy half of that kit even in a bundle - the MOBO is very poor by some of the i5 boards around.

I cant do this now as I am not at home, but I will post a decent spec later around the what you have looked at, also remember that you are going to have to set aside some money for an OS unless you have one already?

Also if there are any parts from your older PC that you can re use that would be good such as the HDD, Optical etc