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need advise...what's the slowest component of this proposed system?

nny

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about to buy a new system, want to make sure nothing needs to be upgraded...

ANTEC Performance Plus Case with 430W TruePower, Model "PLUS1080AMG" - 114$
MSI K8T800 Socket 754 CPU, Model "K8T NEO-FSR" - 96$
AMD athlon 64 3000 - 224$
Corsair XMS, Low Latency 512MB DDR PC-3200LL (2-3-2-6) - 150$
Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model WD1200JD, OEM - 111$
SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON 9800PRO, 128MB DDR, 256-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP -RETAIL - 219$
SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5inch Floppy Disk Drive, Model MPF920, OEM - 12$
NEC 8X Black DVD+RW/-RW Drive, Model ND-2500A, OEM - 95$
total: 1020$
 
sorry, should have stated that i built the system with 2 upgrades planned in the next 12 months: adding another stick of RAM to get 1 gig, and buying another SATA drive to set up a RAID 0 configuration. with that in mind, is there a slowest component i need to upgrade?
 
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