Been talking about it for a while, going to happen soon. Doesn't really matter if it happens in a day or two weeks, but I'm getting a PC. Need some input on components. Will it work, do you have any recommendations in changing shit around, am I missing anything, etc?

DVD Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16827151187
Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811119197
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822136320
Graphics card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814129113
PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817139005
Memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820231144
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128358
Processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819115037

Also getting some HD555's to upgrade from steelseries 5HV2. Although I've had them for just about 9 months and they are great, I want to upgrade to some audiophile-calibre headphones. Pairing that with some twenty dollar logitech desktop mic and I should be set.

HD555's lead to my next question. Can you recommend a good soundcard for about $100-150 that would take full advantage of the HD555's? Something that wouldn't completely skyrocket price past $1300/780 pounds.

Right now without soundcard and with a new mouse, mousepad, mic, and headphones, it's 1,107 USD. Basically leaves me with 200$ to spend on a soundcard, though if at all possible I don't want to use it all.

Halp pls?

Edit: Been looking at this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16829271001
Seems to have good reviews and suits price range. Thoughts?

Isn't this a step down from what you have now?

Can't see any glaring issues with the PC components, obviously a few things there can be scaled according to budget / future-proofing / OS though.

Worth noting that HD555s aren't really audiophile headphones, though they are good. For soundcards your only decent choices really are the X-Fis or the Xonars, and for future's sake I'd recommend the Xonars. Cards outside your price range excluded you got two main choices depending on how you'll be using it - the DX or the D2X. If you plan to just use it for general PC applications with analog/headphones as a small quality and feature upgrade, then go more towards the DX.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...2006&Tpk=DX

Is that the DX you mentioned? Also I sacrificed a little bit on the processor and GPU to get extra money to put towards a sound card. I'll try putting together an i7 build and see how much it ends up at. brbz

Near $1500 with everything the same, except i7 and a 4890. Processor and motherboard cost just rapes me.

That's the one.

I'd wait a few weeks on the GPU if I were you ,ATI is scheduled to release their HD 5xxx series cards soon ,that should put the price of the 4890 down a bit.

Also I think that the i7 is an overkill and you can cut the price of the CPU\MB a lot by switching to a high end quad core .

I don't think he was intending to actually go with an i7, just checking how much it was...