Help with $800ish budget gaming rig

[mk86]

Hello all, Im new here, so HI! :)
Anyways after scrapping my new gaming rig list about3-4 times i have come up with yet another setup that im hoping works out. I am looking for critiques, part replacements or whatever it takes so i get the best bang for the buck First let me just tell you I am from Canada and looking to buy all my parts in-store to avoid all S&H taxes, I got all my parts but the psu from pccanada.com which is the closest and at the same time cheapest store near me.

Setup:
Asus® Radeon EAH4870/HTDI/512M - Radeon™ HD4870 VPU w/512Mb DDR5 & PCI Express 2.0 (Retail Box) $299.99 $30.00 mir

Antec® Three Hundred Ultimate Gamer Case, Black $59.99

Asus® P5KPL-CM, Socket 775, Intel® G31 Chipset w/ PCI Express x16 (uATX) $69.99

OCZ 2Gb PC6400 DDR2 EL Dual Channel Gold Gamer eXtreme XTC Rev 2 Edition (OCZ2G800R22GK) $54.99 $20.00 mir

Intel® Core™2 Duo E8400, 3.00-GHz @ 1333Mhz w/ 6Mb Cache (Socket 775) (Retail Box) w/ Heat Sink & Fan $179.99

320GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ATA-100 7200RPM 16Mb OEM $69.99

OCZ OCZ500SXS StealthXStream 500-Watt Power Supply - SATA Ready, PCI-Express Ready $73.99 $20.00 mir

My last minute change was an upgrade from a 4850 to a 4870 , but i had to pick up a cheaper mobo. I don't plan to use crossfire, my main concern is will that mobo be good enough to handle this setup ? Thanks a lot guys... awaiting some responses.

[alfroogy]

I personally wouldn't use that mobo. I would probably go for a p5q if you can spring the extra cash. the Antec 900 case also has far better build quality to the 300.

also you being in Canada like me you might want to check out ncix.com they have amazing service and will price match anything you can find cheaper elsewhere. They also have some pretty awesome specials.

Otherwise the build looks pretty good.

[Lostatsea3]

That's such BS how much more it is to buy in Canada, then from Newegg. Do you have like... a relative in the US that you can have it shipped too off newegg and then they can ship it to you... its like a 20% increase on some of that stuff...

[jlreich]

I totally agree with a better mobo. Your mobo is the backbone of the system. I would go the opposite way you did and drop back down to a 4850 and get a better mobo. You can always upgrade the video card later, but it's much more difficult to upgrade the mobo. ;)

Never cheap out on the mobo, or power supply. Put as much of you budget into them as you can and it will pay off later. ;)

The power supply should be OK. It doesn't leave you with a ton of room for expansion, but it should do just fine for what you are going to run and still have room for another hard or the like.

Only other thing I would comment on is if you are going to run vista I would get 4GB ram. But that can added later if necessary. If going with XP then 2GB is fine.