Budget build - thoughts?

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I have to replace my wifes computer. Use is moderate gaming (mostly
WOW), some photo editing - no video editing. Here's what I came up with:

ASUS M3A motherboard $90
AMD BE-2350 processor $87
Corsair 2GB TwinX 6400C4 $87 ($47 after $40 rebate)
WD 250GB SATA3 16mb cache HD $74
BFG86256FTOC2FE Video Card $169 ($109 after $60 rebate)

Total $507 -$100 rebates (yeah, I know how those can go)

all from ZipZoomFly (best shipping price to Alaska)

I have an Antec SmartPower 500 PS and can pick up an inexpensive
Coolermaster case at the soon to be out of business CompUSA.

Any suggestions to improve the above and stay in the same price range?

Thanks,
Fitz
 
Fitz said:
I have to replace my wifes computer. Use is moderate gaming (mostly
WOW), some photo editing - no video editing. Here's what I came up with:

ASUS M3A motherboard $90
AMD BE-2350 processor $87
Corsair 2GB TwinX 6400C4 $87 ($47 after $40 rebate)
WD 250GB SATA3 16mb cache HD $74
BFG86256FTOC2FE Video Card $169 ($109 after $60 rebate)

Total $507 -$100 rebates (yeah, I know how those can go)

all from ZipZoomFly (best shipping price to Alaska)

I have an Antec SmartPower 500 PS and can pick up an inexpensive
Coolermaster case at the soon to be out of business CompUSA.

Any suggestions to improve the above and stay in the same price range?
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How's OutPost.com (Fry's) for similar stuff? They often have 500GB
HDs for $100 (no rebate), and my AMD BE-2300 and ECS mobo combination
from the local Fry's cost $60 (usually $90-100).

You may want to get a spare for that Antec SmartPower because they've
had a high dud rate due to bad solder and bad capacitors (see www.BadCaps.net
for "Fuhjyyu syndrome"). Good Antecs are made by Seasonic
(EarthWatts, Trio, Quattro) and Fortron-Source (Basiq) are good, but
Basiqs are kind of noisy.
 
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