My New Computer

[gamerscd0]

these are the parts so far i have decided on for my new computer

ASPIRE X-Infinity ATXB6KLW-BK/420 Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case ATX 420W power supply for AMD/Intel Power Supply

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard  

XFX PVT42EUDE3 Geforce 6800 XTreme 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card  

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3200BPBOX

Kingston ValueRAM 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model KVR400AK2/1GR

Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L160P0 160GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive

Microsoft Windows XP Home With SP2

Tyris T701DB Black 17" 8ms DVI LCD Monitor

Subtotal:     $815.54      

hummm from haveing a buget from $500 to $700 i think i went over eh    

[Mez]

Why don't you go for SATA drives?
Better yet get two and put them in a raid configuration.

[BlackBox]

IMHO SATA is just another way to waste your money. No modern hard drive that I know of will be able to use all the bandwidth available on the SATA bus.

I suppose it does have the nice ability to be able to be hotswapped but then again, how often have you needed to be able to hotswap an internal HDD <_<

ATA is good enough. Just get what's cheapest, but yet still a quality product.  

[Oprime]

SATA has lower CPU utilization which would equal your computer going faster and an increase in drive data transmission. The internal data rate is much faster then what travels over the bus. Take a look at SCSI drives SCSI 320 is extremely fast yet the drives are pretty much the same on the inside as a IDE133. SCSI is so fast becuase the controller handles most of the work load associated with calls for data in the HD.