Yeah I can't say a bad word about antec PSUs
*waits for ironic explosion*
No? Oh well.
My Antec 750 is a lovely quiet and seemingly very efficient unit, running my gaming PC very nicely. The PSU is one thing you can't skimp on because its the only component that can kill EVERY part of your PC when a cheap component pops.
Definitely get the best CPU you can afford, if it stretches the budget by a little then consider it a worthwhile long term investment. 20 bucks extra for say 200MHz more might be just enough make the CPU last another 6 months before it becomes intolerably slow. I was running a P4 2.8ghz and I got a hell of a good life out of it but by the end of its life, it was struggling a little in a way that my mate's 3ghz wasn't.
I'd suggest doing some research on SLI before you set it up, it can be a bit fiddly with some games
What other expansion cards are you likely to use? You might have some trouble if you have two PCI's since the first video card will block one slot (I assume the 9800GTs take up 2 slots, been years since I've seen one that doesn't), same with the bottom PCIE slot
Post edited November 05, 2010 by Aliasalpha