Which ? What ?

vivek

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Hi Friends,

I am in the process of assembling a system. I have decided to go for a Athlon 1.2+ processor with 266DDR bus support and 256MB 266DDR SDRAM. As to the mainboard......I will wait for some time till the battle between nForce and KT266A is out in the open. Now, it is, however, the turn of the peripherals.....

1. CDRW : More or less the choice is Lite-on, Plextor or TDK. I may either choose 24x or 20x or 16x. CDR labs suggests that the benefits are not too much between the speeds but more on the manufacturer and quality.

2. DVD Drive : Looks like 16x Pioneer is the only choice that most of the people seem to have. Any other suggestions ?

3. Sound Card : Still to finalize....but probably will go for a mediocre choice such as Live 5.1 or Live 5.1+mp3

4. Hard disk : Most confusing choices. Fry's have some deal where the 100GB Western Digital is around $199. However, I had a bad experience with WD before (the hard disk had to be replaced because it crashed). So, IBM or Seagate is the other choices to go for.
I would like to have two harddisks. But 2 harddisks (from IBM or Seagate) totaling to <~ 100GB is >$200

5. Monitor: Boy......things get more complicated with the choices...Hitachi or Sony or Viewsonic or Nec. If any one of them, then which model ? And what size (17" or 19") ?

6. Videocard : More or less GeForce2 GTS Pro (with 32MB or 64MB DDR). But which make ? ASUS ? LeadTek ? VisionTek ? Aaaagh !!!.

Hey, help me make some choices. Your experiences count here !!!

Thanks in advance

Warm regards