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Someone do me a favor and make sure I am not missing anything crucial and that everything here is compatable. I haven't slept since 28 hours ago thanks to work school and friends….

Oh and there is a possible prize for helping. And it's really delicious and gooey and yummy.

Foxconn R10-G3 Supports 65W for Intel Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo processors Intel Socket T(LGA775) Intel G31 Intel GMA 3100 Barebone

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119018

Intel Celeron E3300 Wolfdale 2.5GHz 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor BX80571E3300

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116264

G.SKILL 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Desktop Memory Model F2-5300CL4S-2GBPQ

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231119

SAPPHIRE 100253HDMI Radeon HD 4650 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Low Profile Ready Video Card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102829

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3160318AS 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148511

SAMSUNG Black 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache EIDE/ATAPI 22X DVD±R DVD Burner - OEM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151175

EDIMAX EW-7128G IEEE 802.11b/g PCI Wireless Card Up to 54Mbps Wireless Data Rates 64/128-Bit WEP, 802.1x, WPA, AES

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833315041

Nippon Labs Premium 0.5M (1.64 ft.) SATA Cable with 1 Right Angle Connector for SATA I and SATA II Hard Drive Model SATA-0.5MR

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812816030

I heard word of a prize?

Didn't see the celeron E3300 here http://www.foxconnsupport.com/barebonelist.aspx?models=en-us0000045&type=CPU&Series=en-us0000001

The burner needs to be SATA and the wireless needs to be PCI Express x 1

From: Boreas
Didn't see the celeron E3300 here http://www.foxconnsupport.com/barebonelist.aspx?models=en-us0000045&type=CPU&Series=en-us0000001

The burner needs to be SATA and the wireless needs to be PCI Express x 1

e3300 is socket, and so is the mobo in that kit.
I am building an htpc with that mobo/case/psu kit and that same processor.

It comes with two sata cables, so you probably wont need that extra one.

ewww… celery… die, die, die!
go with something that is a bit less… vegetable

~shut

From: Shuttleu
ewww… celery… die, die, die!
go with something that is a bit less… vegetable

~shut

stfu. Celeron is perfectly fine. Hes building a budget, and thats a great budget cpu.

At that budget level, you're going to get better performance if you go with AMD.

From: Smartzkid
At that budget level, you're going to get better performance if you go with AMD.

Yeah I thought the same thing but the guy is hardcore intel fan.

Poor guy. You should inform him that you don't count as a hardcore fan if you're buying budget.

Were he willing to shell out $80 more for a SSD, he'd see a huge performance gain, even with that crappy cpu.

From: Mr.Klean
Yeah I thought the same thing but the guy is hardcore intel fan.

If you're referring to me, am not :[
My main rig has a Thuban 1090T in it.

From: noidea
If you're referring to me, am not :[
My main rig has a Thuban 1090T in it.

I was talking about the guy I was building it for lol. <3 you noidea.

If you haven't built yet, here are some pics of the case.
http://i.imgur.com/QjChA.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xOv0o.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/uQR8L.jpg

Sorry for the horrible res.

Edit: Made them links. Pics were to big.
Edit: specs

Running Ubuntu 10.10 w/ the xmbc -fs front end. Using it as a server while the rest of the family will use it as an htpc. xbmc is pretty awesome.

Originally I had ripped an external drive out of its case and was using it in this machine, but its down right horrible. Way too slow so I just bought this drive. It wasn't included in the original plan, but its something that needed to be done - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185

Intel E6500 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116093
LG Bluray drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136181
2GB 800MHz ram http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144259
GT430 fermi gpu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121397
Case, mobo, psu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119018

So far running well and running much cooler than I had anticipated.

Yeah I built it already. Got it together and runnning in under 45 minutes and software installed in less than 2 hours. Really fast build. The case was kind of a pain to get together, damn that thing is tight……

Plenty fast machine for the need.

Just one question: why 802.11b/g PCI card when we're already at 802.11n? Those dongles are like 10 euro nowadays? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166063&cm_re=802.11n-_-33-166-063-_-Product
at newegg only $15 and has a regular Realtek chipset (they even supply open-source drivers).

From: Markus
Just one question: why 802.11b/g PCI card when we're already at 802.11n? Those dongles are like 10 euro nowadays? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166063&cm_re=802.11n-_-33-166-063-_-Product
at newegg only $15 and has a regular Realtek chipset (they even supply open-source drivers).

I just bought a cheap Rosewill USB dongle. He wanted an internal card but I couldn't find a pci-e 1x card.