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I am going to purchase a system with this configuration and was wondering if there are any compatibility problems or issues with these components. If you have any suggestions for this system, please feel free to contribute.

CPU:
AMD ATHLON T-BIRD 1.4GHZ 256K FSB266 OEM

COOLER:
THERMALTAKE VOLCANO II SOCKET 462(A) HEATSINK&FAN Up to 1.5GHz
or
GLOBALWIN FOP32-1 SOCKETA DUAL BALL BEARING 26CFM

MOTHERBOARD:
ASUS A7M266-A AMD761 SOCKETA 2DDR 5PCI ATA100 C-MEDIA H/W AUDIO

RAM:
MICRON PC2100 (2x256) 512MB DDR 266MHZ CAS2.5 OEM

HARD DRIVE:
IBM DESKSTAR 60GXP 60GB UDMA100 7200RPM 2MB

FLOPPY DRI:
1.44 MB High Density Floppy Drive

VIDEO CARD:
MSI STARFORCE 815 PRO NVIDIA GEFORCE 2 GTS PRO 64MB DDR W/ TV OUT

KEYBOARD:
MICROSOFT INTERNET KEYBOARD (PS/2) OEM

MOUSE:
MICROSOFT WHEEL MOUSE OPTICAL USB/PS2 OEM

CASE:
Netlink 320K 18'' 300W ATX 4X5.25 3X3.5 BAY

DVD DRIVE:
PIONEER 16X-40X DVD TRAY LOAD OEM ATAPI

NETWORK:
D-LINK DFE-530TX FAST PCI 10/100

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Looks good to me, what sound card will you be using? I recommend the Hercules Guillemot Game Theater XP. Plus a very good set of speakers to go along with it.

<b><font color=blue>1.5</b></font color=blue> T-Bird
<b><font color=red>2.1</b></font color=red> P4 Speed

Reply to noko

Oops, 300w P/S will be pushing it. Recommend a 350w plus P/S setup. This can affect stability significantly. Plus if you decide to get more performance out of it you will probably be able to go up to 1.6ghz, but you will need the power to do that.

<b><font color=blue>1.5</b></font color=blue> T-Bird
<b><font color=red>2.1</b></font color=red> P4 Speed

Reply to noko

Looks good.
Your PS is plenty enough for what you got since your not running 4 HDDs, seperate CDRW, DVD and CD drives, and like 5 case fans.

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