First DIY Build

[Mickk]

Looked at your second build and I suggest going with the i5 CPU, a 3.4 ghz if you can get your hands on one.

Also the ATi video card you have has DDR5, which is very very nice stuff, I have an old ATi video card and it has DDR5 (1GB) and it still kicks butt on most games despite it's age.

Liquid cooling as someone else here has said, is really only needed if you plan on doing silly things like overclocking and my opinion is if you feel you NEED to overclock, then you bought the wrong CPU for your PC in the first place.

As for the rest of it, looks good, although I would buy a 500gb HDD (or a SSD if you can afford it) just for your OS.
Your OS goes on the 500GB HDD, everything else goes on the 1TB HDD, that way if your OS goes haywire you shouldn't lose any important info.

What people are saying about the case is totally up to you, but I've recently had a look at the BitFenix Merc Alpha case and it looks like a keeper to me.

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