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Asus makes great DVD-ROM drives so good choice

you might check out the Lite-On or BenQ -1655 burners both very good

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...k=all&N=0&minPrice=&maxPrice=&Go.x=14&Go.y=31

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...k=all&N=0&minPrice=&maxPrice=&Go.x=12&Go.y=25

most members in here have had very good luck with both brands

better than samsung

 

And yet, I'm going to be awkward and not recommend either, based on experience!

 

Not recomend what?

 

Liteon or Benq, to be frank the Liteons at school are getting pretty haggard and they've seen almost no use, and I had two Benq CDRW drives a few years ago that had a combined lifetime of about 10 weeks. I didn't bother replacing the second one, it's too much of a waste to replace a CDRW drive every month. The subsequent LG and Panasonic drives were fine, and I expect the NEC to be too.

 

So what about Hard drives?

 

we went over that in a earlier post remember, one page back

the Westeren Digital Raptor 150 GB Sata are excellent HD 16mb cache. they have an 74 gig that less expensive its 8mb cache or Seagate Barracuda are good HDs

 

Those raptors are pricy! Are they worth it? I'm wondering if I should get a 75g raptor and then a bigger cheaper drive? Like put my games on the raptor and movies and all other data on a cheaper slower drive?

 

as long as you dont mind too much about noise, get the 37GB raptor and a a bigger barracuda.

 

I guess I'll go with the raptor so what segate should I look at I was think like a 300 gig

 

I chose a 250. Good value and silent!

 

Is there anything special I need when picking the hds? Like I don't really understand the sata ata and stuff.

 

well only that if you pick a S-ATA HDD (theyre better) that you make sure you have SATA ports on your board.

 

Hmmm, fair enough, we know companies can come on leaps and bounds, look at LG...

 

Do you know what the diffrence between these mobo are?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131524

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131540

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131517

Also which ones if any have the SATA?

 

They all do, but some have 4 (standard) and others have 8 (deluxe and premium)

 

Whats the 4 and 8 mean? And What are the other diffrences between boards?

 

it has 4 of the slots rather than 8 of them! The other differences are the Premium is fanless, and the deluxe has a few other small differences. The premium also has a 1x and a 4x PCI express slot rather than two 1xs.

 

So which one should I go with? Best for the money?

 

The standard one, that's plenty enough for you. The SE version is cheaper still and still way sufficient, but newegg don't seem to do it!