Ok, So far I have one build under my belt for my own PC and am very happy with it, there are some things I would do different but hey.. thats experience for ya.

My issue is though my cousin recently came up to me saying he wanted to buy some garbage pre-built PC from a computer store around here, I told him for half the price i could make him a PC twice as good. Hopefully I didn't put my foot in my mouth. The following is a build I put together on newegg just a few minutes ago. I am almost positive that its compatible, please double check if you could? Also I think for what the build is its a fairly decent price. He wants it mostly for gaming, and I think shooting for running oblivion on high would be a good goal.

Anyway What do you all think?

Please feel free to give any opinion on the products, as well as making adjustments to the build. I am making this for a family member not myself anymore so its a little more important to me.

Thanks again.

P.S. I realize that this build does not have a HDD, or a CD-ROM I spoke with him about it and he said he was going to include his older ones with this build.

However I would imagine his HDD is non SATA, would he still be able to use it?

I think you forgot to post your build. :)

lol.. wow, sorry definitely had the links but forgot to paste them :P

They are the following:

Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16811119104

CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16819103243

RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820145015

Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16813130119R

PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16817182044

Vid Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814150247

Lol, sorry about that.. running on about no sleep, Thanks for giving me the heads up.

Thanks again!

go with intel. it will be better for gaming

cpu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116036
mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128059

the least you should go on the video card is an 8800gs or he will be very disappointed with performance and not be able to play oblivion on high

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130333

0r a 9600gt

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130334

better yet an 8800gt

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150252

the psu you chose is not any good. you should get this one

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139003

Well I have to agree with some of the parts but, price is somewhat of an issue.. the budget is roughly 350USD, The PSU is nice its what I have in my build right now. I realize that the vid card you chose would be ideal, but I think that goes a little over the mark. Is there anything close to what that one can do for cheaper?

Thanks for the help already!

read this.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-graphic-game,1810.html

it si an article about building a $500 gaming computer. without the hd and dvd drive and a cpu cooler the total is about $400.

Ok, I hate to bug you about this.. but this computer is going to be for a 15 year old rather immature child, and as far as overclocking goes which the article spoke of briefly.. I don't trust him even for a second, and my own personal experience isn't enough to do it very well at all and feel secure about it.

Also 350 is the limit on the PC, he doesn't have a job and his birthday was recently so he asked me to build him something with every penny he had.

Thanks again, lastly maybe oblivion is too high as requirements goes I'm sure if he could play wow well with decently high video options he would be as giddy as a school boy. Hope that helps, Thanks.

$350's quite a harsh budget for a gaming rig, but it can be done. The components you originall posted were fine apart from the PSU (crap) and the motherboard, which is open box, and a bit risky.
Trust me, Rosewill PSUs are not good, no matter what you may think. They look nice but very often go up in flames - real flames, and no, I'm not joking.
Use this power supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139003
and this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128043

and stick with the other choices you went with to start with. The 8600GT will do well enough at oblivion.

ok thank you very much for your assistance, and I thought the open box was risky.. Thats why I came to use guys for the opinion on your second build. Yet again you never leave me hanging. I'll post and tell you how everything goes.

Thanks again.

The only issue I have on the mobo is that is a micro.. that won't cause any issues will it? Also I don't think it will be an issue on this board but I have read on some cards where they can block a PCI slot, I read over the reviews and couldn't find any issues with that.

MicroATX boards are fine, you just don't get as many bells and whistles with them. If you use a single slot graphics card (which most cheap ones are) then you won't have the issue of any PCI slots being blocked.