Seeking opinions of this 800$ Intel/Nvidia build

One of my coworkers asked me for build ideas today. The quick (but very loose budget) was 800$.

From his use it is sounding like this will be a partial home theater (HDMI to 57" tv) and light gaming (EVE online). Storage is not an issue because he has about 1tb of NAS in his home network. He does, however, want drive speed so I have pushed him towards the SSD, SATA 3 and USB3 technology. The only other caveats are no lights (this will be a darkened room and there should be no glare from the pc on the TV). He already has Win7 64bit. The case and DVD/RW (has PS3 for Bray) drive can be cheap.

I chose the following on Newegg and ended up at about 840$:
Intel I5-750 socket lg1156
Cooler Master CPU fan/heatsink (quiet)
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 (www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128412)
EVGA (or Gigabyte) 460 GTX 786mb pcie vid card
4gb (2x2) 1600mhz ram (gaming grade Crucial,OCZ,Kingston HyperX,Corsair)
OCZ Agility 2 60Gb SSD
Cooler Master 700W modular PSU (quiet)
Cooler Master 430 MidATX tower (with one extra 120mm fan to replace blue lighted one)

So far (he later told me he likes to break budgets) he has upped the RAM to 8gb, added $100 by going to an 850W psu (gold rated), and upped the SSD to the 120GB model. I think he will also go with an I7 but has not made that move yet.

Be gentle : )

If all he's doing is EVE then that 460 is meh, I would do a 450 myself, or, do the 1gb 460. Other than that it looks good. I love my i5 runs great, no problems. Looks like a solid build. Nothing fancy but nothing crappy either. Also, do the EVGA card. If he wanted to step up to the next card he can, no one else offers this.

Overall I like it.

Could do an i3 but that might be pushing it.

I agree on the overkill with the vid card...but he also is trying for the unreachable goal of making this 3 yr future proof.

I gave him the whole talk about how he could probably get a 9800GT for 20$ and play EVE just fine. Then I described how the 200 series cards came out...and the joy I had with DX10 on games like Bioshock. Then I started talking about my current ATI 5870 and DX11...and just as I was getting onto the 400 series he went "yea, that one!".

Edit: Looks like the 450 is not available as a step-up option card.
www.evga.com/stepup/

If you didn't already build it and can wait a few more weeks I would wait for Sandy Bridge to come out as it's the new socket (1155) and should be infinitely better price Vs. performance if the early benchmarks are any indication.

It was built 3 weeks ago and actually surpassed the customer's expectations. I took the opportunity to benchmark the system a week ago and was quite impressed with the average scores achieved on games and software.