Advice on building a custom pc?

I'm about to take into building a pc. I have a lot of experience when it comes to tweaking old heaps of junks (both my own and friends) to 'better' pcs. At the minute I have a Dell Diemension 4600 - standard spec - intel pentium 4 processor 3.00ghz (single-core), 512mb (2x256mb) ddr ram, standard, video card, dvd rom, etc.





Anyway after four long years, the latter of which has been 'stressful' I've decided it's time to change!





So I think a custom PC is the way to go. You can get a great PC for the fraction of a brand name pc.





I've made a list on newegg which is


here(*link below). which includes Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz, G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400), Intel BOXDP35DPM LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard, Western Digital Caviar SE WD5000AAJS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (X2), SAPPHIRE 100218L Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 and other bits.





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hey man, everything in your list is compatible. just a comment about your video, i think that's in the mid-range level? if you're in to gaming and stuff the demands a lot of the from the graphics, i think you should at least get an HD 3870 card, that's gonna last at least for a year. :)Advice on building a custom pc?
If you'll mainly be video editing, you might want to check if your software will make use of a quad-core processor, and maybe get a q6600 or other quad-core instead of the e8400 if it does.
Everything looks good just a Power supply and a case.