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cpu is fine, mobo is fine i think, memory i'd just get normal memory. you don't ECC registered. That would save you some bucks too. Antec case, the best case in my opinion. Hard drive is good, pioneer is good, and for cd-rw may i recommend Plextor?
ahh read the last part last ... alrght looks good but the memory .. i'd get corsair pc2700 unregisterd.
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CPU may be a bit expensive. You could easily save some bucks and get a P4 2.0A and a nice HSF (maybe TT Volcano 7+) to push it to 2.66GHz. Yeah Corsair XMS PC2700 is what you need if you want to do some extreme overclocking. That money you saved on the CPU, you could spend to get a better video card. May I suggest a Leadtek Ti4400. Overclocks great. Maybe if you wanted the best performance get some RDRAM and a Abit TH7II... Those things are pretty nice.
My firewall tastes like burning. 
Samsung overclocks much higher than Corsair, stick with Samsung.
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Ok, stick with Samsung then, but don't get the ECC version. It really is totally pointless for a home computer. What kind of video card are you looking at may I ask?
My firewall tastes like burning.
Well how much are you willing to spend? Overclocking more often than not saves you money to buy a video card.
My firewall tastes like burning. <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Chuck232 on 05/27/02 10:00 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
If you arent overclocking you would get a better value and performance with an athlonxp system, a 2100+ will save you enough money to get a better videocard which will give you a net better performance than the p4 system.
Food for thought.
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