New Custom PC Help

[willd]

Lo all
Im building my first PC and i have a list of what im going to buy, i would like to know if there will be any problems with the hardware i have chosen when they work togeather - if there is anything you would get rid of - or anything you would add or change for somthing else without adding too much to the price. The hardware each has a number next to it, this is the price in pounds stearling excluding VAT.

So here is is:

AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) Palomino Core 133.21
Abit KX7-333 RAID Via KT333/VT8233A ATA133/DDR333 SoA Mobo 92.00
512Mb PC2700 DDR Memory (Major) 94.75
Alpha PAL8045 34.00

80Gb Maxtor D740X ATA-133 (7200rpm, 2MB Cache, 8.5ms) Quiet Drive Technology 79.75 the 2 HD go in RAID 0
80Gb Maxtor D740X ATA-133 (7200rpm, 2MB Cache, 8.5ms) Quiet Drive Technology 79.75

128Mb ABIT Siluro GeForce 4 Ti4600 TV Out/DVI 2.9ms Memory 254.00

Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum 132.00

US ROBOTICS 56K VOICE 49.99

Chieftec Scorpio Black TX-10 BD 340W PFC Midi Case 72.50
Freecom *Black* 24x10x40 CDRW IDE 66.00
Asus DVD-ROM 36.75
1.44Mb Black Floppy Disk drive TEAC 11.50
19" LG 915FT Flatron Monitor 0.24dp 269.00
Creative Labs Inspire 5.1 5300 Speakers 52.00
Cherry CyBo@rd+ Wireless Keyboard and Mouse (Black) 57.00

I will be using XP as my OS

If you have any suggestions or comments plz reply

thanks

willd

 

[microAmp]

I would change the HDD to WD80JB with the 8MB cache. Otherwise looks good even with the Maxtors.

 

[GAZZA]

One thing you can check on is any reviews on your said hardware . Here are a few I found on the net.
Abit KX7-333
ABIT Geforce 4 TI4600
Creative SB Audigy Platinum eX & Inspire 5300 Speakers Review


With the type of raid your running you do understand that if one of your drives fail then you've lost all your data ?

I see from the list of hardware that money doesn't seem to be much of an option always nice to have that feeling if at all possible .

The only thing I personally would change would be the DVD and CDRW drives , my preference for DVD would be a Lite On drive and my burner would either be the same or a Plextor.

 

[hoihtah]

i'd change the HD to WD1200BJ.
one 120gb with 8mb cache is much useful than getting 2 hds in stripe.
for security reasons... and less resource.

in terms of speed... i'd imagine that it'd be very difficult to tell which is faster in real life.

and look for P4 configuration rather than Athlon XP.

go for 32x lite on cdrw.. you can possibly o/c that thing to 40-48x.
and i don't know about that wireless keyboard.

 

[willd]

Thank you all for your help - and im looking into these products now
Anyone else who has an apinion plz also post

ta

willd