[thebattosai]

i am planning on building a comptuer. I am planing for 2 sata 320 hardrives, 2 iede dvd rw drives, a 512 video card, and The Intel Core 2 Duo 6600.


what is a good mother board i could buy to suit these needs. Keep in mind that i only have about 130 as budget.

[b1gapl]

It's $14 more but, I think it's a good motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128018

You didn't mention ram...I suggest 2GB (2x1gb).

[thebattosai]

is it a good idea to have 2 seperate dvd burner drives of different brand names? will this effect performance or anything:S?

i know this might b a newbie questions but....yah...i'm a newbie

[TheEnd187]

not but it helps having 2 burners so you don't waste a lot of hard drive space and will make renting from blockbuster easier lol(you know what im talking about)

[thebattosai]

one final question. i took the advice and am getting a motherboard similar to that. Question is: it takes 800MHz ram, does that mean i can install anything under 800 or just 800 ? because i have some PC5400 677MHz ram and i would rather just install that... is it possible?
here is the motherboard....http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&sku=G452-2560
thanx for the help.....

[bum]

Well here's the same motherboard on newegg for slightly cheaper, I avoid Tigerdirect, they suck.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128017

About the ram, the 667MHz, should be fine.