Building my first comp, need some input.

[Eefness]

Yea i know this is quite generic but im getting paranoid that i forgot something so might as well ask around to make sure.

So recently my older sis upgraded her comp and sent me her spare parts (sense my old PoS died a long while back.)

Currently I am sitting an a 500w Power Supply, A Radeon HD 5670 Video Card, 3 gigs of Ram (4 sticks, 2 1g, 2 512mb,considering upgrading a tad), a Dual-Core 1.8ghz processor with heatsync(not sure what brand),and a motherboard (I beleive it is an Intel). Other than that nothing but the power supply came with cords and nothing else came in the box. Although I know they all worked together at some point.

I know atm that I need a Tower, hardrive, Soundcard, wireless adapter,CD drive, and an OS (currently wish listed on newegg here http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=24909287 ). Beyond that im not sure what else I would need.

I mean i fairly sure im missing cables and such (though I DO have an optical for my speakers and an HDMI for the monitor) but i have no idea what.

Any thing a newbie here is overlooking?

 

[PiCroft]

It sounds to me like the only cables you really need are any SATA cables and accompanying power cables for any hard disks you get. They're dirt cheap if you don't have enough but I would imagine if you have a dead PC you probably have at least one of each already.

For hard disks I will say this: Do not ever buy OCZ products. They are shoddily built and have a horrible reputation. I have an OCZ Agility 3 and it bluescreens constantly, apparently a common problem I hadn't found out about until after I got it.

 

[evilneko]

Wow that's some fairly low-end stuff. Not gonna be maxing out many games on that hardware.

Is the wireless card really necessary? The motherboard probably already has an ethernet port on it. Cheaper, faster, and more reliable than wifi. The mobo probably also has integrated sound, so you can save yourself another few bucks by skipping the soundcard there. Then you could use that money to spring for a 1TB+ hard drive.

The drives you selected are listed as bulk/bare so they won't come with cables. Cables are under ten bucks.