building a new comp / cc please

^-- haha, man have I learned alot from this post. Thanks guys for all your help.

Ok, one last edit to my list. Please take a look to see if I've over looked any thing.

Thermaltake Xaser III V1000A Chassis, 12-Bay, ( BLACK ), ATX Super Tower. Aluminum Front Panel and 1.0mm SECC Japan Steel Body. LARGE SIDE WINDOW. With 7 fans and Locks. $175.00
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=11-133-105

ABIT IC7-G, Intel 875P chipset for Socket 478 800MHz Canterwood ATX Motherboard RETAIL $212.00
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=13-127-152

Intel Pentium 4 / 3.0CGHz 512k socket 478 Hyper Threading Technology 800 MHz FSB - RETAIL $425.00
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?catalog=343&DEPA=1&submit=property&mfrcode=0&propertycode=&propertycodevalue=4186,4720

Buffalo Technology 512MB 6 Layer PC3200 DDR Memory Module CL 2.5 32X8 (Winbond Module) - OEM $85.00 (2x $170)
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=20-150-535

WD WESTERN DIGITAL "SPECIAL EDITION" 80GB 7200RPM EIDE HARD DRIVE MODEL # WD800JB - OEM, DRIVE ONLY $84.00
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=22-144-122

SAMSUNG 1.44MB BLACK FLOPPY DRIVE Model# SFD321B/LBL - OEM, DRIVE ONLY $8.00
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=21-103-203

Thermaltake W0010+PFC Silent Purepower 480W with Black housing - Xaser Edition ATX 2-Fan Power Supply. $98.99
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=17-153-009

Total: $1172.99

Don't know if it matters to you or not, but your mobo is capable of Ultra 150 drives and your HD is only Ultra 100. that is going to be a sweet pc (*drools*)

Originally posted by Marble
Don't know if it matters to you or not, but your mobo is capable of Ultra 150 drives and your HD is only Ultra 100. that is going to be a sweet pc (*drools*)

I need to do this in steps son. :D Next will come a bad arss hd, gcard, sound card, monitor and speakers.

Yeah i would probably go with a high end graphics card first.... With your ram and bus speeds high, 100 on the ide bus will still be pretty dang fast.

This is the only ata150 I could find.

Western Digital Raptor 36GB SATA WD360GD 10,000 RPM 8MB Hard Drive OEM $142.00
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=22-144-200

I'm highly thinking about changing hard drives now. THANKS arss!! j/k :D

DO NOT BUT THAT XASER!!! THERMALTAKE CASES ARE HORRID

Ok, that case is horrible. It had horris cooling, pointless features and it's overpriced. You're much better off with the Lian Li you had before.

People with those Xasers have been complaining all along. Don't buy it.

Harddrives
That Raptor is decent. It is however, too small. The fact that it's 10,000 is good... however not as important as 8MB cache... since it has both speed and cache it's good... but not for 36GB... that is nothing. For $140 it's just worthless.

I would suggest a 120GB Western Digital 8MB 7,200rpm drive. They're like $100.

You will honestly see a 1 second difference in seek times between the 7,200rpm one and the 10k rpm one. Cache makes copying, saving, pasting, everything faster. A LOT faster.

really only reason to get 10k is you do some massive movie editing and deal with huge huge file sizes, and what not, or if you really care that your computer will start up a bit faster. id just stay with 7200 is plenty

Originally posted by Malevolent_Jester
DO NOT BUT THAT XASER!!! THERMALTAKE CASES ARE HORRID

Ok, that case is horrible. It had horris cooling, pointless features and it's overpriced. You're much better off with the Lian Li you had before.

People with those Xasers have been complaining all along. Don't buy it.

Harddrives
That Raptor is decent. It is however, too small. The fact that it's 10,000 is good... however not as important as 8MB cache... since it has both speed and cache it's good... but not for 36GB... that is nothing. For $140 it's just worthless.

I would suggest a 120GB Western Digital 8MB 7,200rpm drive. They're like $100.

You will honestly see a 1 second difference in seek times between the 7,200rpm one and the 10k rpm one. Cache makes copying, saving, pasting, everything faster. A LOT faster.

You Malevolent basterd, why do you've to go and tell me **** like that about my case. From all the reviews I've looked ppl love this case. If you can prove me wrong then I might think about going back to the Lian Li.

P.S. Thanks for the pointer on the HD.

Ok, sure, go ahead and get it. I mean, it's not like I care THAT much, if the reviews you read are good... then sure.

But consider yourself warned. ;)