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SATA drives just have different interfaces, they'll be no less or no more noisy, the Fujitsu IDE drives are reputedly quiet though, Maxtors and WD's like the whine after a few months (sometimes longer, sometimes sooner)
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at the comment about Fujitsu drives. All of the Fujitsu HD's I've had are as noisy as jet engines in full swing (OK, major exaggeration used there for dramatic effect but near enough
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AARGH!! That bloody high pitched whining!! I would never buy another Fujitsu drive again!
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Forget going for a P4, go for an Asus A78NX deluxe Nforce 2 motherboard, 2 x onboard lan, loads of USB 2 ports. A fantastic (and reasonably priced) board. If you don't have a soundcard to use, the soundstorm audio is pretty good, but I'd recommend a decent creative card (Audigy/2/ZS)
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From the document on the AMD website, the Athlon XP processors seem really tricky to fit, and there are many things that could potentially go wrong. The impression I get is that you have to get it just right, or it your processor will be cooked or physically broken.
The Intel ones seem much easier from the outset if you get the boxed retail version of the processor which comes with heatsink and instructions.
I've seen an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard on overclock.co.uk. Any good? The speaking POST error messages seem a bit freaky though
Cheers for all the advice so far. I seem to get the message that one of the most important things to do whilst handling components is to ground yourself, otherwise you could fry your components.