Tell me what you think.

If you want to burn, get a burner. Burners do it all; a "CD drive" may just be reader, not a burner.

Cases are largely a matter of personal preference. Some people put the emphasis on build quality and quietness factors; others are interested in looks and flashing lights. It's pretty much up to you. Coolermaster is generally well regarded, but I have no idea on that case.

I don't game and don't know what it takes to run certain games. That 4670 video card you chose is a mid level card.

The PSU is gross overkill in watts and of unknown pedigree. It's likely that Coolermaster did not make that PSU. Somebody else did and Coolermaster put their name on it. 700 watts could power 2 of your machines. Your PC doesn't consume many watts as presently configured. Even if you go hog wild on the video card, you won't need 700 watts. I'd stay with Seasonic personally as they make their own PSUs. Some Corsairs are also made by Seasonic.

DVD burners are pretty much generic commodities. Decent choices are Samsung and Lite-on.


You have an ATX motherboard and so you need an ATX case and an ATX power supply. Any ATX PSU will fit into an ATX case. Some PSUs will have more cables and connectors than others. If you had a fancy system with a lot of internal components, you would need to be sure you had enough connectors from the PSU.

But you don't have a fancy system. So virtually any PSU would have enough cables. You need to be concerned with finding a high quality unit with enough power. Not hard to do.


Good advice from Jonathan--make sure all of your drives are SATA rather than IDE.

I would throw in a 30GB OCZ Vertex for Windows7. That would make the system a LOT faster. Newegg.com - OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX30GXXX 2.5" 30GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - SSD

While deciding on the case, did you consider a CoolerMaster HAF 922? It fairly conservative in appearance and modestly priced, but what I like about mine is the triple 200mm fans for cooling. They are far quieter than my secondary rig in an Antec 1040BII, which has 5 80mm fans which screams, yet runs much cooler.

The only thing that I don't like about it is that since the drive bays sit sideways, you need to use clipon power connectors for the SATA drives, otherwise they bind on the side panel, making it difficult to close. Right angle data cables are best also.

And skip the SSD for the time being. Trying to stay within 30GB for Windows 7 for many can be a bit of a challenge

Where is the challenge. It will take years before you can fill up the 30GB SSD with the system (provided the user data is on another disk). Since I am running Win7 on my SSD, I am costantly hovering around 15GB +/- a few.
And if you get the Vertex I linked which supports Trim (firmware level 1.4.) plus Win7 which also supports Trim, you are set for the near future. Then when Win8 will be out, things might change. But then you'll buy/build a new system anyhow because you want other features like USB3, etc.