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Hellfire · Rated XXX

Lots of stuff here...

For your drives, get the Western Digital Raptors for your OS and programs, put into a Raid 0 for the best speed possible, or into a mirror config for safety..

For the storage, get SATA 2 (3Gb/s) drives. Whatever size you want.

For the CPU, get at least the AMD X2 4400. The 4400+ has 1mb cache on each core, giving you 2mb of cache. I don't believe PS takes advantage of multiple processors. The X2 shoudl give you plenty of horsepower and growth.

Ram, Corsair makes some great highspeed/high quality ram. Don't think you coudl go wrong with their ram. 2GB would be min I would recommend, especially to start with. Get the 1GB x 2 sticks. Then if you have ram issues, you can add an additional stick or two. You definetly want it in Dual Channel mode.

For liquid cooling, I don't get much into that. I stick with good fans and cpu coolers and don't have any problems. Currently I have the Zalman Fatal1ty coolers and they are working great.

For Video card, go with at least the GeForce 6800. Would recommend the 7800 they're not too much more expensive. Can't say much for the ATI line, I'm not an ATI fan.

For the MB, DFI makes some VERY nice boards. Also, I'd recommend Gigabyte, Abit, ASUS as well.