Aye, I would ditch the extra RAM in favor of an Athlon 64 setup. You've done well in choosing AMD, as they are much faster and more powerful at rendering graphics and math than any Pentium, no matter the clock speed.

With that much RAM, definitely choose XP. Windows 2000 is dated and XP has soooo many good features.

But everyone else is right... I priced those parts here in Seattle at $627, with XP Home. You are paying waaaay too much for the system. Better to Fly over here, get all the parts, and build it yourself. Just an idea!

And .... Get a graphics card. You can get a Geforce 6 for under $100. Go for it!

Oh yeah... Stick with Maxtor, if you can. Seagate's have a much higher failure rate. Out of the last 40 Maxtor drives I've used, only two have been toasted. Every Seagate drive I've ever used fried itself within a year. AND... I have an 8GB Maxtor that has been spinning for 6 years, nonstop.

Message edited on: 10/13/2004 16:23