PC Arena

The best CPU would be an AMD Duron, mainly because of its price, the Duron 600 costs just £65 and the 800 costs £85. Another brilliant feature is that it is socket A, which means you can upgrade to an Athlon processor when they get cheaper. A 700 Athlon now costs £450, quite expensive compared to the Duron. The Duron is still quite fast and beats the equivalent, that being Intel's Celeron, in a 370 socket, the Duron beats the Celeron by a small margin but still its faster. See Tom for more details, on benchmarks between the two cpu's.

Best Motherboard

Well ABIT and ASUS are the two best manufacturers at the moment, but ABIT have a lead as the KT7 RAID is the best MB you'll find out there. With 4 IDE channels, you can connect lots of drives to it. But that's not all the motherboard is also well featured, including 3 DIMM PC133 RAM slots, 6 PCI slots, 1 ISA slot, 1 AGP 4x slot, Socket A, and softmenu III for jumper settings. The RAID is the 4 IDE channels, the KT7 is cheaper but has no RAID. £122

Best CD Re-Writer

CD writers have to be fast to be the best and the latest Burn Proof technology has to be included. SO the Plexter W1210TA wins. Including WinOnCD 3.0 and Packet CD, the drive also has Burn Proof technology, which stops buffer under runs, and reducing the risk of a wasted CD, or coasters. The drives speed is above all competitors, a write speed of 12x a re write speed of 10x and read of 32x give it the fastest ever recording. In 5 minutes you'll burn any CD-R and 7minutes for a CD-RW. The price is quite high at £240 but I've seen them for £180 at computer fairs.

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