New comp parts on the way

[Galland]

This weekend I ordered parts for a new PC from newegg.com. This will be my first time building a system from components. Hopefully everything will go right. Here is what I ordered:

Antec case w/ 350w PSU
Abit IC7 i875P Canterwood mobo
Intel P4 2.4C retail CPU
512mb DDR400 PC3200LLPT Corsair RAM
Samsung 3.5" FDD
Windows XP Home OEM CD

I've got a GeForce2 MX200 AGP card and a few Seagate hard drives already. I'm going to save up for a little while longer and buy a nice video card for the rig- a Radeon 9800 non-pro or something like that. I might try to overclock the 2.4C to 3.06ghz, but not until the need ot do it becomes apparent.

My biggest worry right now is FedEx- they are lousy. They've delivered three different things to the wrong address. I'm going to call them up this time and make sure the driver has instructions.

Galland

[Keith Heitmann]

Good luck with the new system. I didn't see anything about a DVD or DVD/CD burner.

I usually prefer UPS over FedEx myself.

[Galland]

Keith said:

Good luck with the new system. I didn't see anything about a DVD or DVD/CD burner.

I usually prefer UPS over FedEx myself.

So do I. If FedEx screws this one up they're going to catch Hell from me. I forgot to mention my Lite-On 48x12x48x CD-RW. I haven't seen a need for a DVD capability just yet. If DVD-R media comes down to the pricing of CD-R I'll probably get a new burner.

Galland

[Keith Heitmann]

Galland said:

So do I. If FedEx screws this one up they're going to catch Hell from me. I forgot to mention my Lite-On 48x12x48x CD-RW. I haven't seen a need for a DVD capability just yet. If DVD-R media comes down to the pricing of CD-R I'll probably get a new burner.

Galland

Mine handles CD-R/CD-RW and DVD+R/DVD+RW formats. It won't write CD+R/RW formats at all.

In fact I just burned my very first CD yesterday just to try it out.

I turned my expanded bootleg score of Starship Troopers into a audio CD. Worked perfectly and played fine on my home stereo CD changer.

I've got several blank DVD+R and DVD+RW disc here that I'll use for file storage. Can't beat them for raw capacity.