Advice for P4 System

I am building a new system and will order most of the parts this evening or tomorrow afternoon. I hope to get some advice before I order the parts. I am not sure who has the best price for parts (including NJ shipping) that I can't find at Newegg.

Please let me know if you have any advice to improve upon the following setup / price:

Plan to buy from Newegg

CPU - P4 1.8A 512KB Cache $165
MOBO - ASUS P4S533 $103
HARD DRIVE - Western Digital 120GB 8MB Cache (Internal) $182
PSU - Enermax EG465P - VE 431W $83
DVD Rom - Pioneer Internal 10X SCSI $97
Video Card - Gainward Geforce 4 Ti 4200 4ns. 128MB $199
Sound Card - Voyetra Turtle Beach Santa Cruz OEM $59
Total Newegg Order ($28 Shipping) = $916

Parts I plan to order (Not in stock at Newegg)

MEMORY - Samsung DDR 333 PC 2700 512MB
TV Tuner - Leadtek TV 2000

Parts that I already have

CASE - ATX Full Tower Case W / Slideout tray for Mobo
CD-RW - Teac CD-RW 8 X 16 X 32
MODEM 1 - RCA External Cable Modem
MODEM 2 - US Robotics Sportster 56K (Used for fax)
OS - Windows XP Home
FLOPPY - Unsure of brand
PCI CARD - Unsure of brand (Works with SCSI)
FIREWIRE CARD - Still in box (Don't remember brand)

I plan to use the computer with my monitor, TV, 2 VCR, stereo w/ surround sound, cable box, and scanner. I would like to overclock the CPU and memory.

I plan to use TV In/Out for games, music, and movies.

Thanks for your help.

Fatburger,

Before it died, I had a SCSI CR-R 32X. It was very reliable and I could copy a CD-R at 16X (CD-Rom speed).

I plan to copy many CD-Rs (especially music CDs).

Could the IDE DVD drive that you recommended be used for CD to CD copying at 16X (CD-Rom Speed) with a less than 5% failure rate?

If so then I would not need SCSI DVD-R.

Please let me know.

Thanks again.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by DrChaos on 06/13/02 05:13 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Fatburger,

I am sorry if my post was unclear.

The CD-RW that I have is IDE TEAC 8 X 16 X 40 (I think)and the maximum speed for CD-R was 16X.

The 32X SCSI CD-ROM was used as the source. My concern is to find a DVD-ROM that can replicate the performance of the 32X SCSI CD-ROM for direct CD to CD copying.

Do you think that I can record CD to CD at 16X using the Pioneer 16X IDE CD-ROM instead of SCSI with my IDE Teac CD-RW.

Thanks again.

Fatburger,

I am sold on the IDE Pioneer drive that you recommended. The 512kb Cache on the SCSI sounds nice but fifty bucks is fifty bucks.

Thanks again for all of your help.