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The Seagate is nice because of the five year warranty but the Hitachi is one of the fastest SATA drives you can get with out getting the WD Raptors.
You'll get faster performace from 2x 2GB sticks of ram than you will from 4x 1GB sticks.
The ASUS video card has a better warranty but I would really try to get the 8800GTS. The 8800 is a much better chip than the 8600 and the GTS is cheaper.
32bit OS's can only recognize up to 4GB of memory. Any more is a waste as the OS can't see it. You will normally on get 2.5GB to 3.5GB of useable memory due to some wierd overhead losses.
On intel motherboards you can use the PAE option in the boot.ini and it will let you recognize all 4GB of memory. If you have 4GB, run WINVER and see how much memory shows. Put the PAE option in, reboot, and run WINVER again.
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