I need help with building my new computer. I need to know what wont work and suggestions on what to change it to.

AMD Athlon XP 3000+ CPU 2.16GHz speed / 512 Cache
Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra Motherboard See below
Windows98 or XP w/o SP2 OS Xp - memory hogger
1GB DDR400 RAM? -? getting 3
Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 Hard Drive
Panasonic LF D521 Dvd/Cd Drive All format burner/player
Samsung SM-352 Combo Cd/RW dvd drive
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum 3D Sound Card
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Video Card
Coolmax CX-500 500-Watt ATX Power Supply
Coolant fans Coolant fans - getting 2 seperate. Power supply has internal one.

MB Descrip
Chipset Type
VIA KT400
Chipset Description
VIA KT400 / 8235 chipset
Supports 266/333 MHz FSB
Graphics Info
AGP Pro slot supporting 8X AGP
Form Factor
ATX
Memory Type
DDR400/333 SDRAM
Memory Description
Three DDR 2.5V DIMM sockets support up to 3GB (with 266 memory setting)
184-pin PC3200/PC2700/PC2100/PC1600 non-ECC, unbuffered DDR SDRAM memory
Click here for memory speed/CPU FSB compatibility information
Expansion Slots
Five 32-bit Bus Mastering PCI slots (V2.2 compliant)
One Universal 8X AGP Pro slot (supports 8x/4x modes)
Expansion Slot Types
Five 32-bit Bus Mastering PCI
IDE Type
UDMA 66/100/133
IDE Description
Four independent channels for 8 IDE devices (2 for RAID)
Supports up to PIO mode 5 & Ultra DMA 66/100/133
Two PCI bus mastering ATA E-IDE ports
Audio Description
On board CMI 8738 audio chip providing 6-channel audio solution
Supports optical output & SPDIF output
IO Port Description
Two RS-232 serial ports (16550 UART compatible)
One parallel printer port (SPP/EPP/ECP mode)
One FDD port (supports 3 modes, 1.2/1.44/2.88MB FDD)
Provides IrDA with optional cable for transceiver
Provides 6 USB 2.0 ports (2* rear, 4*front)
IO Connection Description
PS/2 Mini-DIN mouse & keyboard ports
Two USB 2.0 ports
One RJ45 connector
Two D-Sub 9-pin male serial ports
One D-Sub 25-pin female printer port
Audio I/O: LINE-OUT x 1, LINE-IN x 1, MIC JACK x 1
One game port
BIOS Description
Award PCI BIOS with ACPI function
Supports multiple-boot from E-IDE / SCSI / CD-ROM / FDD / LS120 / ZIP
2 Mbyte Flash ROM
Health Monitoring Description
On board voltage monitors
CPU fan speed monitor
CPU fan speed monitor
CPU temperature monitoring through flexible thermal sensor
CPU overheating protection
Dimension Description
Four layers, 30.5 cm x 24.5 cm (12" x 9.6")
ATX form factor

Is it not working?

I havn't bought the parts yet. This is called checking to see if it works before buying it and spending 300 hours trying to figure out the problem

How much money you want to spend? I can show you a great pc part by part but would need to know about how much you want to spend!

Cause you dont want this


Hitachi Deskstar 7K250? ? Hard Drive
and you need a case

And your going to want XP. you can turn off all the eye candy to get it good and downa on resource hoggin

And as far as ram you would want either 2 or 4 of the pc 400.. if you get three you wont get the dual channel +'s

I can get great deals on parts so It's not really how much I want to spend. Lets just say my budgets around $2500-$3000

Edit: I already know I need a case.

What Merlin said , plus i would change the cd writer to a dvd writer. And definatly WinXP and a good set of speakers.