hahaha....no i don't, i just spend too much money on my computer

I have a Seasonic-- 5 years old and solid as a rock. Quiet, too --120mm cooling fan.

I would have got a Seasonic but they are fairly expensive - the corsair's are getting great reviews.

if you are using onboard grafix and sound, i would go for the cheapest branded memory, you obviously arnt interested in overclocking or games, so expensive mem not needed. I always use 2 physical HD, the system on 1 on and my Documents transfared to the second, with a partition set up for a backup image. If the worst should happen and your system disc fries, then you dont loose all your documents/music/pics. I would recomend using an imaging software like norton ghost to make an image of your system disc.
I personally would install your OS, moboard drivers, security software do a windows update and then load in your imaging software and make 1 image ( and keep this 1 seperate from any other images ) now, you can then load in all your other stuff and make either incramental updates to a second image or just make a new image every month or so.

Thanks Willo1962!

Will I need to buy any screws/cables for an OEM hard drive and DVDRW? I realize that they don't normally come with everything you need to connect them, but my mobo should supply all the screws right?

You'll get all the cables you need with the motherboard.
And all the screws you need with the case.



But personally I always go for the higher quality PSU and RAM. High quality ram is not only for games, but for stability. I've noticed so many cheap ram modules causing crashes on systems...i just don't trust anything that i haven't heard of anymore...or is highly recommended by the online community.

Corsair, OCZ, Crucial and others are good makes.