New Computer

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I would personally take another hard disk; i have good experiences with a WD raptor, these disks have a 5 year warrantee, and their access times are very good. It takes a raid 0 setup of 'normal' disks to achieve the same read times. (but with raid0 the access times are getting worse) True; they are not as big as the 500 Gb, but i'm able to manage quite well with them. I used to run 4 250Gb disks in raid 10, and 2 of them went bad (because of a powersupply error) So yeah, i would also recommend a good powersupply. Get one with a 12cm fan, since they are able to move serious air without creating too much noise.

If you can swing it, i would also take intel over AMD. with the current ddr2 prices you don't need to worry about what size of internal memory to get.. :)