Began building a new desktop... I have the tower, amd phenom ii x4 840 cpu , cool master 550 power supply, an asus m5a78L-mlx mobo... And i want to finish it! I am thinking about buying a GeForce GTX 550 and still thinking about the size of the hard drive and the burner... Any advice? Would this be a good mix??
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Any SATA DVD-RW drive will do. I tend to use the Samsung drives myself (as they're usually the cheapest) and I've not had a problem with them.
Don't get the GTX 550, get a Radeon 6850 or 6870 instead, they are both faster cards than the 550. The 6850 is the same sort of price as the 550, the 6870 is a little more expensive.
As far as HDD size goes, 500GB and bigger is nice, 1TB would probably be best.
Get a 7200 RPM drive with a 64MB cache buffer if possible, those will be the faster hard drives. The Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB would be a good drive for you.
Don't get the GTX 550, get a Radeon 6850 or 6870 instead, they are both faster cards than the 550. The 6850 is the same sort of price as the 550, the 6870 is a little more expensive.
As far as HDD size goes, 500GB and bigger is nice, 1TB would probably be best.
Get a 7200 RPM drive with a 64MB cache buffer if possible, those will be the faster hard drives. The Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB would be a good drive for you. 
Any SATA DVD-RW drive will do. I tend to use the Samsung drives myself (as they're usually the cheapest) and I've not had a problem with them.
Don't get the GTX 550, get a Radeon 6850 or 6870 instead, they are both faster cards than the 550. The 6850 is the same sort of price as the 550, the 6870 is a little more expensive.
As far as HDD size goes, 500GB and bigger is nice, 1TB would probably be best.
I feel weird contradicting you but I was always under the impression that the greens were more for storage drives. Aren't they at 5900rpm not 7200? You want 7200 if you're storing your OS and games on it. If you're just storing like music, videos, and documents it's fine, but for programs, you want 7200RPM.
Yeah actually I think the Greens are 5900RPM drives with a 64MB cache buffer - my bad. This Seagate may be better then. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840