looking to build my first system have had a look on this board and with my head spinning have picked these parts would like you lot to have a look and advise me right wrong ect.i have a scsi burner to hook up
but i think i need to add a graphics card any ideas don't do gaming so don,t have to be tops.is it best to go for raid or 15 quid cheaper without on the asus?what is raid??

Ebuyer Avalon Steel Midi ATX P4/AMD 400 watt PSU
AMD ATHLON XP2200+ 266MHz FSB - OEM
Coolermaster HAC-V81 XDream Heatsink & Fan SKT A Upto Xp2800 Speed Adjustment
Asus A7V333A Skt A KT333 Chip XP Ready Audio+Raid
PC2700 512MB 333MHz DDR DIMM
Western Digital Cavier SE 80Gb 7200rpm 8mb Cache Hard Drive - OEM
Liteon 16x48 IDE DVD Drive

all found on ebuyer for 351 pounds
thanks

Seems all good m8 one thing i will say is unless you use a 333Mhz FSB CPU using PC2700 is not really worth it and you could save abit of money by using PC2100 RAM
Here's (http://www.acnc.com/04_01_00.html) quite a technical explaination of RAID you only need to worry about RAID level 0 and 1

I would get a Gigabyte motherboard, as the sites really easy to use, and you can get drivers straigt away, they support the older boards for ages too.

RAID is, unless your one of those people who love to brag about your pc, a complete waste of time. - I know alot of people will disagree, but iv tryed it and noticed no differnce.

Basicly, if you do decided to give it ago, it can either make Two Harddrives work together to be Faster or Work together to Backup.

I would get a motherboard without it, and get a soundcard with the spare money - or use it to pay towards a better one.

Get a decent graphics card though, because even if you dont play games, it wont be long before the current ones are out of date, and only the latest ones will be excepted when the new ones come out.

Check out www.hardwareoptions.com to see if you can get the parts any cheaper there.

P.S

Dont forget the cables and connectors. ;-)