Can I get some feedback?

[scotoma]

I am going to put together my first system from scratch. What do you all think of what I have in mind?

· ANTEC Performance PLUS Model PLUS880- with Antec Original TRUE P4 Power Supply 430Watt
· Intel P4 Motherboard D850EMD2 For P4 (478) Processors
· MSI G4Ti4600-VTD (MS-8872 8872-040) GeForce 4 Titanium 4600 DDR/SDRAM 128MB Video-in TV-out DVI-I VGA CARD
· Intel Pentium 4 / 2.53GHz Northwood 512K Socket 478 Processor 533MHz Processor Bus
· 2 – KINGSTON RAMBUS 512MB PC 800 ECC –Retail
· SAMSUNG 1.44MB FLOPPY DRIVE
· 2 – WD WESTERN DIGITAL "SPECIAL EDITION" 80GB 7200RPM EIDE HARD DRIVE 8MB Cache
· HITACHI CM721F 19 INCH FLAT-FACED
· Lite On 40X12X48 CDRW
· PIONEER INTERNAL ATAPI 16X DVD-ROM
· VOYETRA TURTLE BEACH SANTA CRUZ – OEM
· Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
· NEC Internal EIDE 100MB Iomega Zip Drive


Anything I should think twice about? Any words of wisdom/experience would be great! Thanks

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by scotoma on 05/28/02 00:35 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[lhgpoobaa]

ummm
for max performance you should get PC1066 RDRAM, not the PC800.
(or alternatively get sambsung PC800 40ns stuff and overclock it)

apart from that im outta suggestions.
but boy is it gonna cost a bucket!

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[Ratch]

One of the Pioneer DVD's is ATA66, I can't remember the model name. I will look it up later for you. This would be the model I would go for.

I might be a good idea to check the driver support of the hardware (for WinXP) before you commit yourself, and make sure that if windows has any problems, the manufacturers have XP drivers. For example, my friend has an Epson printer that wasn't supported, I assumed that XP would recognise such popular printers!