Case: Antec Two Hundred;

Motherboard: ASUS M4A79XTD EVO AM3 AMD 790X

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955

GPU: XFX HD-485X-ZDFC Radeon HD 4850

RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB

PSU: Antec Basiq BP500U 500W

Hard drive: Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Disk Drive: SAMSUNG Black 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW

Fan: Rosewill RCA-1204BK 120mm Sleeve Black Case Fan, 4/PK

Is this a good gaming computer build?  I don't PC game hardcore, but when i game I'd like to be able to run the games on recommended settings or higher.

Depends on what games you're going to be playing.  What you looking into?

HD5770, don't cheap out on the gpu. Spending the extra $50 is worth it.

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HD5770, don't cheap out on the gpu. Spending the extra $50 is worth it.

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HD5770, don't cheap out on the gpu. Spending the extra $50 is worth it.

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SAPPHIRE 100283-3L Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit   will this be a good choice? "

You may want a slightly larger PSU, I tend to go with a 750W min on a gaming rig. That way you'll know your covered if you want to expand and put in another GPU or HDD's.

" You may want a slightly larger PSU, I tend to go with a 750W min on a gaming rig. That way you'll know your covered if you want to expand and put in another GPU or HDD's. "

Rereading that, a green drive is only 5400 rpm (not good for gaming) compared to the usual 7200 rpm, your getting a slower hardrive that's for storage, yet gives you more capacity. Maybe you should just use the western digital 1tb black hardrive instead, then later on if you need more storage, which I doubt, you can get another 2tb green drive for a second drive.

Antec makes good cases.  I have the 1200.  If you are looking for a good midtower from them, then check out the 900, it is pretty cheap now and much better than the 200.

Thank you gentlemen, I will be ditching my shitty laptop and getting this in a few weeks now.

My strategy with my first computer build was to A) first try transferring all the parts of my current (at the time) PC into a new case and then B) somewhat copy another solid build that I was sure would work out fine, modified to be based on parts that offered the best price-performance ratio and stuff that was on sale. 
 
More specifically to you, yes, I'd go with the suggestion of at least getting a 7200rpm drive. The video card totally depends on your monitor / the resolution you intend to run at. 
 
Here's a hard drive deal for a 7200rpm 1TB Spinpoint (a drive I'm currently using and it's great) plus a DVD drive for $71. Just follow the directions. If you're willing to shop around outside of just Newegg, you could probably shave some cash off the final build cost and still get free shipping.

maybe too late for the following deal?
 
there is a seagate 1tb drive at amazon for 41.03...  if you are a student you get amazon prime for a year, so free shipping too
 
  http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/
 
it's a gold box deal and right now about 50% of the deal has been claimed...
 
it's a bare drive, so don't expect a cable...

" Radeon 5870 would be even betterrrrr.... Can get them on NewEgg.com for $350-$400. "