New Computer Build - Do these work?

I need someone to take a look at these components and let me know if they are compatible or should be changed out for something better.

LIAN LI PC-61 USB Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Thermaltake Purepower W0100RU ATX 12V 2.0 500W Power Supply 115/ 230 V UL, CUL, TUV, FCC, and CB certification

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor

ASUS P5E LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pioneer Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 10X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 40X CD-R 32X CD-RW 40X CD-ROM 2MB Cache IDE 20X DVD±R DVD Burner - OEM

Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600AAJS 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

CORSAIR 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300)

Creative Sound Blaster SB0570 Audigy SE 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface Sound Card

BFG Tech BFGE86256GTSOCFE GeForce 8600GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

 

Thanks mada

Would you change anything else?

 

Hi Laura


my initial thought is that I would go for a larger capacity PSU, something in the 650w range as 500w is pretty low for todays hardware, especially if your possibly going to add more components over time.

Hard Drive is a bit small for today also, my options would be a fast WD Raptor 10000rpm 150GB and then a 2nd HD for data storage and backups etc the 160GB would be ok for this, but to give idea, I have just added a 1Terrabyte HD as data storage, for music, images, backups, files, docs etc as my 250GB data drive is getting or was getting full ( until clearout ), you may not need to goto the excess I did, but these days OSes and software are all growning in size so space runs out quickly, add the MP3 players that many have and you have an iPod Touch, the MP3s stored on a PC can take up masses of space, I only ripped part of my collection of Cds and my MP3 folder is at 56GB.


Nice choice of CPU, Mobo and GFX card


Have to ask, what things will you be wishing to use this PC for? its a general question I ask so to guage what parts maybe needed, changed or removed ( possible is the soundcard as the ASUS mobo has a good soundchip on it, these days mobo onboard sound is very good, I know my mobo has similar chip and the sound is superb )

 

k, so upgrade the CPU, HD and PSU. Take out the sound card (not an issue with me). I could probably downgrade the video card since graphics intensive gaming isn't going to happen. I wish I could use the video card I bought a couple of years ago, but it AGP.

What I want is a computer that I can upgrade. I usually go with Dell and upgrade the components as much as they allow. I'd rather build one that I know will be easier to upgrade.

btw, I have a total of 4GB of RAM in my cart.

 

Halo mentioned the PSU problem also. Does this look better? I'm confused with this on the connections.

OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI ATX12V 700W Power Supply 100 - 240 V - Retail