the Hushed Casket

Here's my pick for a $800 build. Total is $786 shipped, leaving you a few $ for misc expenses. There's also a $30 MIR on the video card.

Samsung DVD burner. Didn't see much difference between all the optical drives.

Rosewill case with 400W PSU. Rosewill is Newegg's house brand. They're generally reputable. I would go to Tom's hardware and look up power requirement's of each component to verify 400W will cut the mustard with some room to spare.

Western Digital 500GB HD. I don't need 500GB, but for an extra $30 over a HD with half the space, it seems like a no-brainer.

EVGA 8800GT video card. I'm not the brightest bulb in the tanning bed when it comes to video cards. I went strictly by reviews and awards. This one got a customer's choice award, looks solid, and fits in the budget nicely.

A-DATA 4GB RAM. This is DDR2, 800Mhz RAM. Great deal for 4 GB. However, you can only get 3 GB usable out of 32-bit versions of XP and Vista. The extra gig doesn't hurt since it all comes on 2 sticks.

Gigabyte mobo. Very highly rated, won customer's choice award, and nicely priced. Has optical and coaxial audio out in for easily connecting to a 5.1/6.1/7.1 surround sound system. All solid capacitors, which is apparently good, although I confess I don't know why.

Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz 45nm processor. 45nm chip will run cooler and allow you to overclock more. A quad core chip is within your budget, but I don't think it's necessary.

CPU cooler. Picked a modestly priced but highly rated cooler for socket 775 chips. Don't know much about it.

I think the PSU is the weakest link of the build. Reviews say it's good for a basic build, but nothing extravagant. If I were going to add to the build anywhere I'd go with a different case and better PSU, but I think the build is solid as listed.

What do you guys with more experience think? Have I made any stupid errors on compatibility?