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40x12x48 Lite-On CD-Burner
16x/48x DVD-Rom
56x Regular CD-Rom (is this useful at all?) >>
You don't need that many optical drives. I recommend you try to get yourself a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo such as this one Plextor. One should be available in USA soon. That drive will do everything you need.
A CD-ROM drive in addition will only be necessary if you're planning on doing considerable number of CD-to-CD copying.
I recommend a 40x Teac reader if you'd like to do this. Other may have higher max rating, but they are usually slower than Teac after considering it's frequent slow down on less than perfect discs.
I have a Teac 40x reader and Plextor 16x reader setup. This setup will complete disc-to-disc in 5min 30sec without making everything go through hard drive.
rounded ATA133 cables (factory rounded for looks and quality)
Alpha Pal 8045 w/ Arctic Silver III and a YS Tech 48cfm Fan
10x Panaflo L1A's for case ventilation (may not use them all, but good cfm for low noise, get them here )
peripherals dont really matter...that is all up to the individual (mouse, kb, speakers, monitor, etc.)
i dont even want a floppy drive in my computer, but i guess it is mandatory (or is it?)
what am i missing? what needs to be changed? what do you guys think?
oh yeah, how does a TT Active Heatspreader (for DDR Ram obviously), Crystal Orb (for Northbridge and GPU), after market RAM sinks for the video card.
also, how about a board with some integrated stuff, but still has all of those great features, like a chipset with KT266a maybe...
i mean features like onbaord sound and lan. (i know most come with sound now)
im not sure about the network card, but that really doesnt matter.
does this look like an extremely fast system? the fastest possible to build? (for a normal person lol, im not talking about like $10,000+ budget)
what do you guys think?
oh yeah, what about SCSI for all of that? would that make a difference?[/i] >>