Next question: If you were building that Cooler Master ATC-110 case, and all you had was the case, what would you buy for a power supply, motherboard, and chip set, provided that you wanted several drives in the computer?
I build computers all the time for folks.
I’ve become very fond of the various Gigabyte motherboards. Never had a problem with them and they have passive northbridge cooling(no fans to wear out). I just built this one for a guy who’s not a gamer. It’s got USB/Firewire, DVI and E-sata. It uses DD2 800 which isn’t too spendy.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128072
I’m also very fond of Thermaltake power supplies. Something in the 500 watt range will do just fine. Go 600-700 if you’re going to get a gaming video card.
First a few questions:
1) Do you know what kind of drives you'll be using? (SCSI, SATA, ATA) ...and how many?
2) What will be the primary purpose for the machine?
3) Will you be doing any gaming, CAD or other 3-D work on it?
4) Which operating system will you be using? (Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.)
5) Do you want to overclock or otherwise tweak the thing for maximum performance, or do you just want it to run reliably?