Building new system

OK! well I'm just getting started. I have already chosen the following:
CPU: AMD Athlon/T-Bird 1.4GHz-266
Memory: Corsair 256MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM
Motherboard: Asus A7M266
Now I'm looking for a hard drive and vid card.
Due to cash restrictions I'm looking for a 20/30 mb H/D at 7200 rpm (is there a big performance dif. between a 7200 and 10,000?I know the cash dif. is.)
The brands i am slightly familiar with are Fujitsu, IBM , Maxtor, Seagate ,and Western Digital . Ive heard some good about western digital but not sure.
Ok the vid Card.. I am a devoted gamer but i dont have $400.00 for a vid card here I'm just looking for suggestions.
(still running a voodoo 3 2000 lol)
I'm solid on the Asus M/B and the T-bird but any suggestions on anything and i meen anything else would be very apprieciated..

Thanks

 

Welcome Zen1(or welcome back, whichever)

I'm not qualified to say which is best, but can say that when I built my first box a few months ago, I installed a WD 20Gb 7200 HDD that I bought at http://newegg.com/and see they have it now at about $69. Have had good luck/results with it so far and ordering from that particular company was without pain. Of course you can try http://www.pricewatch.com/ to check others. Mine is an AMD 1.2 on an Iwill KK266R and I used the stock h/s fan that came with the cpu and it did ok, but recently installed another h/s fan that lowered the cpu temps 10 to 15 deg F. under full load of distributed computing. If interested, I'll post back. Good luck.

 

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Will if a gamer you are then don't mess with the little drives cuz these games are taking 2 ta 5 cd's these days. Huge! Entry is 40gig ATA/100 7200 but $18 more gets ya a 60gig. On vid anyone will til ya the middle class geforces are great

 

Make sure you get at least an ATA-100 HDD. Don't bother with an ATA-66. I have a 30GB IBM deskstar 75gxp, and it runs great. BUT others have had problems with them dying (there is a thread on this board somewhere).

As for video cards definitely buy a Geforce. Get one of the 'Ti' cards. They have the most bang for the buck.

When I built my last computer I followed the Value Gaming System GUide @ Sharkyextreme.com, and I am still happy with my machine 14 months later. Check out this months recomendations.

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