well first i wanna know alot of things, im planning on purchasing a new computer...... and i wanna know if theres anything wrong with purchasing A Pentium® 4 Processor at 3GHz w/800MHz front side bus/ HT Technology(is a athlon better?),2GB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 400MHz (2x512M) (should i get 2gb?) is a raid 0 faster than a hardrive with 8mb data cache ,7200 rpm,4.2 latency, and a 8 second spindle start time?oh and about how much memory is enough? i want to download about 600 songs, have like 15 high quality games... is 120 gb enough?what exactly is a 48x/24x/48x max cdr drive? Ok im planning on getting a an optical mouse, its not wireless, but is there any problems with optical mouses? whats better Crts or flat panels what do you prefer.My video card is a 128MB DDR ATI RADEON™ 9800 Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI (should i get the 9800 radeon pro?) .is a Sound Blaster_ Audigy™2 sound card with DVD Audio a good card? My speaker system is a Altec Lansing THX Certified ADA995 Surround Sound 5.1 Speaker System will i have enough power for it if im custom making a dimension 8300 i cant find the specs to the power connecter thingy.OK if theres anything wrong with the xp home edition tell me now.... also if i get a comp with it can i uninstall the xp and install a windows 98.Now is a Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet any good, can you tell me benifts of it.Btw im planning on getting broadband.Will unreal 2 work on this computer.Should i trust dell, i dont like the imac comps operatng systems.I dont wanna ask a guy to custom make it if itsvgonna cost alot more.Also whats a twin motherboard?Is any of the geforce cards better than the Radeon 9800