I am not a loyalist, I've just ALWAYS used nvidia and intel and never had any problems, I'm willing to try new things though. I really do appreciate you looking at the build for me though, I am going to plug those you suggested into Excel and see what I can get my price down to.

Intel Core i7-920 Processor 279.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202&cm_re=Intel_Core_i7-920_Processor-_-19-115-202-_-Product

Nvidia 480 GTX Fermi 534.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130551&cm_re=geforce_gtx_480-_-14-130-551-_-Product

ASUS P6X58D-E LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard 239.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131641

COOLER MASTER Storm Scout SGC-2000-KKN1-GP Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 79.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119196

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL 109.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231277

Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive 74.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136319

CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply 89.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005

The total is around 1400. I don't know much about this stuff as its my first time building, but I do know I want the graphics card and intel i7. However if anyone can find a cheaper of anything else, or notices that I'm missing anything, I'd appreciate it so much. My goal was around 1200 dollars, I already have a keyboard, mouse, monitor, and cd/dvd drives from my old computer.

Just got a 500 GB hdd, upgrade from a 70gb woohoo.

I've installed every game I own, total of 34 games with 320 GB of free space left!

Now the sucky thing about this is, when I want to play a game, I'm constantly changing what I want to play, I always get this message "Please insert the right CD". Well after about a week of changing the CDs I start getting bored and don't even want to play a game that requires a cd or that I dont have a cd in.

However when I go to look at no-cd cracks they are always a version short, I like to keep my games up to date but finding working no-cd cracks suck.

windows xp
dell windows xps 400
pentium D CPU 2.80GHz
nvidia geforce 7800 GTX

Is this all the information you need?

All I have is the windows operating system disk. I seem to have lost the drivers/utilities one because when I try to connect to the internet on that computer it won't recognize my modem.

I've been to the Dell site and it is really confusing on what I need and don't need. Is there a place where I can download the disk I'm needing? Or can someone help me locate all the necessary drivers... videocard /soundcard/networking is the only thing I can think of, I don't know much about it anyway.

Faulty wire, all this commotion over a faulty wire.

Thanks guys!

I know its not the best quality, but heres 2 pics.

http://www.axcessmypics.com/photos/photo02/22/66/4fa7830e0879.jpg

http://www.axcessmypics.com/photos/photo02/44/c7/c93cf4e4f60d.jpg

Okay so it is powering up, very quiet drive but I felt heat too and heard slight spinning, so the power cable wouldn't be faulty, however my other hard drive has an L shape data cable at the end, my new one isnt L shape if that matters..

Also would powering down without saving be the same as holding down the power button, I notice my computer doesn't go through the "saving your settings" part when I do that, just right to powered down.