putting a new system together...need opinions

[waylman]

system is below
just need something mid-range
look ok?

Is it worthwhile getting a SATA II drive or should I just get SATA I for a little less money?
Thanks.


AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor S939 Venice 2.0GHZ 512K L2 Cache 90NM Retail Box

Antec Sonata II Black ATX 16IN Mid Tower Quiet Case 3X5.25 2X3.5 4X3.5IN 450W Air Duct 120MM Fan

ASUS A8N-E Motherboard ATX S939 NFORCE4 Ultra DDR PCI-E16 PCI-E4 2PCI-E1 3PCI SATA RAID Sound GBLAN

Crucial Ballistix PC3200 1GB 2X512MB DDR400 CL2-2-2-6 184PIN Dual Channel Memory Kit

1.44MB Black 3.5IN FLOPPY DRIVE

EVGA E-GEFORCE 6800GS SLI 256MB 256BIT GDDR3 PCI-E VGA DVI-I Video Card Retail Lifetime Warranty

NEC ND-3550A DVD+RW 16X8X16X DVD-RW 16X6X16X DL 8X/6X IDE 2MB Burner Black OEM W/ SW

Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB SATA2 7200RPM 8MB 8.9MS Hard Drive 3 Year MFR Warranty

 

[Bobthelost]

Looks ok to me.

SATAII is mosly marketing crap, the HD you've got there is the fastest 250GB drive around, but you might want to reassign that money into the CPU or graphics card.

 

[shoRunner]

sataI, sataII, sataOI, and even IDE will have about the same transfer rates and approx same speed. as speed it much more determined by spindle speed and drive design than the type of interface, as no drive maxes out the ide interface now.

you could probably save some money by getting some value ram for like $80 and lose very little performance.