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Hi,
 I'm going to start building my first new system. I don't have all the money right now, so the plan is to buy the parts as the paychecks come in. My question is, what would be the best order to purchase my parts in? I need everything except a monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers, and a video card. Everything else is going to be new on this computer. Also any suggestions on specific parts that work well together and what would be best to spend more money on than other parts. I'd like this to be a moderate level gaming machine. Thanks
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Just a second thing to keep in mind.  This actually happened to a friend of mine.  If your planning on purchasing a bit at a time, don't waist to much time between purchases.  My friend started off purchasing a motherboard, and by the time he got around to getting the rest of the parts, he couldnt get a processor that would work in his new board. (it was not obsolete)

Another site to add on top of the ones suggested by leew, could be  tigerdirect.com or tigerdirect.ca (of course depending on your location)  You can usually get a good deal on a bare bones system which includes case, PSU, MB, CD, and Floppy
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Okay, well it should all be purchased and built in a period of about a month, so im not too concerned with the pieces becoming outdated, what i would like to do though is up the points a little and see if someone can go through this list of pieces ive compiled and make sure that it is all compatible.

Case/PSU/Fans: $101
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-156-149&depa=1

MotherBoard: $56
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=13-180-059&DEPA=1

CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-341&depa=1

Hard Drive:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-135-106&depa=1

Memory:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-144-305&depa=1

DVD/CD Burner:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=27-106-932&depa=1

Floppy:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=21-103-203&depa=1
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Perhaps look at something like this to get you started.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=786307&Sku=M450-2014%20A

This one supports serial ATA.
Well truthfully i wasnt really concerned about what kind of hard drive i had in the system. What kind is compatible with the motherboard i had chosen? And whats the difference in the types? This whole thing is a learning ordeal for me and i just want to make sure i get the most out of it and build a system that would be ugradeable in the future. I had kind of ruled out the idea of a barebones kit in the beginning, just because i wanted to choose all the parts myself and kind of make it my own. Thanks for your help so far guys.