Hey all. With my new found Christmas money, I've decided to build a new system. This will be my first time and the How-To Geek walk through of building a computer is all I really have as a reference.

Basically, I just want some other people to verify that all the components I have chosen are compatible with one another. I'm scared to order everything with not being completely sure. Also looking for advice on what I bought, if it's a bad deal, if I'm not getting the most outta my money, etc. I'm not completely savvy, so my ignorance might lead me the buy stuff that isn't as good or is worse than I originally thought.

This is what I have so far:

Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6811156209
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6813128352
Video Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6814102770
Processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6819103291
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6820231166
Hard Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6822136320
CD-ROM Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6827136152
OS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....6832116488

Total: $814

Let me know if I'm missing anything, and thanks in advance for everything. :D

Have all those, speakers too.

Oh yeah, monitor is a 22'' widescreen if that has any relevance to what to buy.

rick, i returned an asus motherboard. i thought 'man, these things are junk". they sent me a new one and i'm blown away by it! that's prolly what i'll stick to.

neato, i hooked up a soundblaster card and a bose speaker set up. sounds awesome

@ 0z,
Yes remember your Asus incident. They have made some mistakes but over all many consider them the "Top of Line".
Notice Asus has earned their good reputation over the decades so just not my opinion.
Have always built Asus Intel platform; CPU + Intel Chipset. NEVER an issue. Will last forever.
Did try (1) Abit. DOA out of the box.
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@ Neato,
Yes i7 is new next generation and expensive right this moment.
Prices will fall in the next couple of months as the Fabs switch production over and the old 775 inventory clears the supply chain. Not a matter of what you going to to with the machine but a real technology change.
Hate to see you make a Build now if you already have something that will last a couple of more months until the new generation 1366 CPUs are the main stay of the the fleet but that is your decision.
Best Regards,
Rick P.