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SkylineRider

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Thanks for coming in. I need your suggestion for 2 hardware purchases and a cheap speaker set. Would these be reasonable to buy?

Speaker < $50:
Cyber Acoustics CA3550RB 68 watts 2.1 Black Speaker - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16836150044


DVD Burner < $30
LITE-ON Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE DVD Burner - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827106014

Hard Drive < $200
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000KS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136014

PLEASE help me quick! I will purchase the items soon...if you have better deals or suggestions, please advise.

Thank you in advance
 
I still say that 5.1 speakers are better. And I would not buy a LiteON drive, but then I'm not an expert, so my opinion doesn't count.
 
Originally posted by: Seekermeister
I still say that 5.1 speakers are better. And I would not buy a LiteON drive, but then I'm not an expert, so my opinion doesn't count.
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5.1 (or higher) is good if you can place them well, have multichannel source material, and aren't compromising quality for quantity 😛
 
Originally posted by: DasFox
When I see DVD burners that tells me someone that is into this, so buy a better one.
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:roll:

Nothing wrong with Lite-On. In fact several Sony drives are rebadged Lite-On. 😛

LoL @ the thread title 😱

 
Originally posted by: John
Originally posted by: DasFox
When I see DVD burners that tells me someone that is into this, so buy a better one.
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:roll:

Nothing wrong with Lite-On. In fact several Sony drives are rebadged Lite-On. 😛

LoL @ the thread title 😱
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I just meant I believed this Sony was a better choice then this particular Lite-On. This dual layer I don't think is a Lite-On either.

ALOHA
 
Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Originally posted by: Seekermeister
I still say that 5.1 speakers are better. And I would not buy a LiteON drive, but then I'm not an expert, so my opinion doesn't count.
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5.1 (or higher) is good if you can place them well, have multichannel source material, and aren't compromising quality for quantity 😛
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With the layout of my L-shaped desk and file cabinet, it works perfectly to put me in the middle. If I ever decide to spread the speaker out, I will need some cable extensions, but I doubt that there is any compromise on quality. The 2.1 speakers that I had on my old computer couldn't hold a squeak to these. I don't know about now, but when I bought these at Walmart, they were very inexpensive.

 
Wait...so what about the Hard Drive? Any suggestion? Last time I picked up a thread somewhere that linked to a 300Gig Seagate for less than $200. Now I can't find it no more 🙁
 
As a little off-topic remark before I get on topic, does your name relate to Nissan Skylines? 😱

Oh and, just out of preference, I've had a bit of favor more toward the NEC burners. In most tests I've seen, the brand usually performs the best if not very well. This was noted with their 3500A (I believe that's the model, I know I have one in my mini-atx PC that I took out of this one). I'm currently running a newer NEC burner and I've had no problems so far! I know when I first started looking at DVD burners, I was always recommended to steer clear of their DVD burners, which was odd, because they had rock-solid CD burners. Just passing it on...

The Hard Drive looks alright, that's the 500GB that I was going to buy before I decided to go with the 750GB.

Go with some nice logitech speakers like the nice people linked 🙂.
 
SkylineRider,

Despite appearances otherwise, you have heard from a couple of experts already. The "lurkers" are not likely to benefit from this thread, any more than any other. It sounds as though you haven't been around forums too long, or you wouldn't display the attitude that you have.
 
Originally posted by: DasFox
Cheaper and better speakers:

Logitech S200 2.1
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16836121129

Logitech X-230
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16836121123


When I see DVD burners that tells me someone that is into this, so buy a better one.

Sony DRU-820A
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827131016

I use this Sony DVD/Burner and they are very nice. 😉

The hard drive is fine.

ALOHA
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Sony DVD burners are in fact built by Lite-On and you can usually get Lite-on for much less money. Also lite-On drives allow you to change the book-type on the EEPROM (basically flash the drive to burn every video DVD+R as DVD-Rom)
 
Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
lol im a lurker. i lurk. live to lurk, lurk to live

🙂 Yet another lurker here so my input is worth what you paid for it but I like my X230's ,NEC burner & I'd say the WD's a good drive as well.
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Hey !!! Thanks a lot, guys !!! Sorry for my wordings earlier, just trying to make you guys mad so that I would get some good tips. hehe, It works!! Since I already made a big mistake with the items I bought to build my computer (CPU, mobo, memory), I just had to ask u guys before buying this time (I'm a newbie in building comp).
Seems like the following would be my final decision:

SONY 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 5X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache E-IDE/ATAPI DVD Burner With Black front panel - Retail

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

Logitech X-230 32 watts RMS 2.1 Black Speaker System - OEM


Again, THANKS A LOT you all !! AnandTech ROCKS !!! (I'll come back again if having any problem overclocking, LOL)

P.S. Yes, Skyline is the Nissan tuned car...
 
Originally posted by: crydee
You can get the 7200.10 320GB shipped for 94.99 from Newegg.
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I just picked up one of those last week. It's still empty and waiting for me to have some free time to transfer over to it 😛
 
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