" @TekZero: Get a G15 Keyboard and some sort of Razor Mouse that suits you. There. Be happy. "
I used to want a G15, but then I realized that I don't really need a back-lit keyboard that shows me information on a screen that's already on my monitor. It's rather frivolous, to be honest.
Since you're willing to go all out on this and you already have a good part list set up, I only have a few minor suggestions.
GEAR1: Logitech Dual Action Gamepad Go ahead and replace this with a wired Xbox 360 controller if you really want a game pad. It's more natively supported and it's probably going to work out better for you.
KEYBOARD: Xtreme Gear (Black Color) Multimedia/Internet USB Keyboard Keyboards aren't as important, in my opinion, as mice for being high quality, but maybe you could switch this out for a cheap name brand keyboard, like Microsoft or something.
MOUSE: XtremeGear Optical USB 3 Buttons Gaming Mouse Since you're going to be doing a lot of gaming, I'd recommend shelling out maybe $20 more or so for a decent name brand gaming mouse. I've been using a Logitech MX518 for years and it's served me really well.
SOFT1: Microsoft® Office® 2010 Home and Student (Word, Excel, PowerPoint + OneNote) I don't know you personally so I can't tell if you're Lawful Goodor not, but I personally wouldn't "buy" Microsoft Office. Definitely purchase the operating system though, that's important.
SOUND: ESS 3D WAVETABLE SOUND PCI Your motherboard already supports 8 channels of audio, and today most motherboards have really good audio support anyway. A sound card is not necessary in my opinion.
HDD: 30 GB Kingston 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Hard Drive) HDD2: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive) Stating the obvious here, but make sure you install your OS to the SSD and all of your games and multimedia on the HDD. This will ensure you get the most out of the setup.
And that's basically all the wisdom I have to share. I hope your friend is ready to tweak some BIOS settings. My GigaByte motherboard required some trial and error to get working with my RAM.
Edit: Also I highly endorse getting Corsair RAM, just from personal experience. I ordered G-Skill RAM initially for my computer and one of the sticks came DOA. I RMA'd it and got more DOA RAM that wasn't working at all. I RMA'd it for a refund instead and went with Corsair and have had no problems since.
" Dammit, I still can't get the music thing to work. Can someone please explain it to me? It's like I add the music, but it doesn't ever activate, even in offline practice. What gives? "
I had the same problem for a long time, and then one day it just started working. I tried posting about it on the Steam forums, but nobody bothered to reply or help out. My best advice is to just give it time I suppose. It's a weird glitch that I'm not sure there is actually a solution for yet.
Totally off topic here, but I was kind of surprised to see somebody else using the angry face from Newgrounds as an avatar. I thought the post was from me for a second. Good thing I changed up my picture the other day, hah.
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