The Asus motherboard wasn't a very good choice as Asus stuff is often unreliable (what was wrong with the board I specified?) but the rest is OK, assuming you went for the PSU I recommended - it's not visible in the picture and you haven't stated what you bought.
I am baffled why you choose the ASUS as well. My ASUS P5N-D bought around Christmas of 08 didnt even last me to x-mas 09 so I couldnt agree more when Sam says there pron to reliability. I noticed Sam recomended the Corsair XMS RAM and you bought Kingston Hyper-X. While Kingston doesnt make bad ram, the Corsair was a much better value as there higher quality, and cheaper. The Beta-Evo case Sam recommended had storage for one more HDD, which could come in handy in the future, and looked to have all around better air flow. Also had more depth giving you more room to work with when upgrading your video card in the future.
Unfortunately most people assume that all components are equal, and if they buy what looks nice, or what someone else built, it'll all be fine, whether or not it contradicts our advice. I don't take people ignoring what we say personally, but it is sometimes infuriating, especially if they later come back with problems.
I diddnt go through newegg. I just had a local company build it for me. I have 2 other computers with asus boards and have never had a problem with either of them.
and there is the problem with getting PCs built by shops, lower quality parts. What Power supply did they use? I dread to think...
jerecho> Changing the subject a little, but if your not storing any media on this computer, and just watching video streamed from your network, why didn't you buy a media player like the Tvix, or popcorn hour? It would have been cheaper and easier to use.
@SAM, I dont take it personal, nor infuriating, just irritating. @Jericho, ASUS used to be a reliable brand up until about 2 years ago. As for the PSU, wattage alone means nothing. If you got a junk 650 watt(which in terms of a quality PSU is MAJOR overkill for such a system) it may be out performed by a 300 watt psu of good quality like a Corsair. Plus you run the risk of throwing away the money you just spent as it could destroy your parts or worse yet, catch fire.
Reasonable units, they're not unreliable at least. Shame about the Asus board though, that could be problematic a few months down the line.
From what I gather, the quality of different batches is continuously varied. Some boards will always be good (rare), some boards will always be bad (more ommon), but most commonly, there are good and bad batches of boards. The uncertainty makes people dismiss claims of unreliability on the grounds of "oh, you just got unlucky with a bad one, it happens". With Asus, however, it happens more often than brands who do not skimp on build quality, such as MSI, Biostar and Gigabyte.
