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sounds good.

I actually just got 2.5GB of DDR400 from tigerdirect for $50.
I also went through newegg and upgraded this box with an athlon64 x2 3800+, asus a8n SLI premium board, and a 7800GT PCIe card.

your 450 should be ok, but watch it for a bit to be sure. power supplies aren't something to skimp on. they can destroy things if they go bad or get overdrawn.
I'm using an Enermax 465W supply myself.
similar setup to yours
athlon64 x2 @ 2.4GHz
Asus A8N SLI Prem board
eVGA GF 7800GT PCIe card
1GB (2x512) Corsair XMS TwinX1024 PC3200LL DDR
Adaptec PCI SCSI card
Conexant HSF winmodem
Plextor DVD/RW
LiteOn CDRW
3.5" FDD
some fans, cold cathodes, EL wire...
power with the enermax dual auto-variable fan 465W supply

runs just fine.

Me and some friends are big into building our own computers and several of my friends had received obviously used equipment and then got a runaround from tigerdirect about returning. Stuff was scratched out of the box, screws had obviously been cranked down on the mobo, etc. And the customer service sucked. While in Korea I built a lot of comps for people. I had an order of over 1k taking its sweet time showing up from newegg. Usually things got to me in Korea in about a week. It was going on three and I hadn't gotten anything yet. I sent newegg an e-mail and explained what was going on. They had me send them a copy of the order and resent the entire order. No questions asked. I can honestly say that was probably the best customer service I've ever gotten anywhere. And their prices are great. Just my two cents worth.

i agree with tigerdirect, they are on the ball...

although one time i did have to send a MB back, but it was really easy to return the item..

i have had really good luck with tiger direct i have bought many things off there. whats wrong with them?

tigerdirect is very good. I bought all my pc parts from them back when I built this. I had no problems, very good customer support too.

The only thing I'd consider is going with a power supply certified to the newest standard of ATX12V 2.01.

http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20041223/index.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/200507111/index.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20050506/index.html

tomshardware.com has a lot of good info. Just search for power supplies and read on. When you're ready to buy, check out newegg.com. The only place I trust. Stay away from Tiger direct.

according to both im fine.

These should help you out.

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0, ... g,2,00.asp
http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply ... ?cmd=INTEL

sinister audio wrote:i think you should be fine at the most the thing is going to rest i would say and thats with everything running. you gotta upgrade that sound card that should of been the first thing to do.

thats what I thought too. By basic soundcard i ment an Soundblaster live x gamer, I dunno why I said basic, its like 5 years old but it still works good.

Put it in and try...