Once again for anyone who doesn't know the computer is G4 Power Mac M5183 tower and keyboard she doesn't have the monitor... On the back it has 1-AGP slot, 4-PCI slots, 2-USB's 2-FireWire 400's, 3 slots for memory (and I already know the max is 1.5g (3-512's) ram... The computer was built around July 2002 it has a 466mhz processor, 896mb (1-128mb/1-256mb/1-512mb), ATI rage 128 pro video card, 30G 5400rpm IBM Deskstar HD (March 2001), Sony CD-RW CRX140E, IOMEGA ZIP 250... She has a HP 23" monitor (pretty new) from the PC she is using now and would like to use this (so she can switch back and forth from Apple tower to PC tower) depending on what she is working on... I already bought a AGP PNY Tech NIVDIA GeForce FX 5200 128mb Video card and an airport card together for $34 ebay, a Pioneer DVR-118LBK DVD/CD Writer for $28 from NewEgg... I'm working on now 2-512mb someone I know is working on getting for me... My biggest question is for the hard drive which way should I go??? She has about $160 left to spend she told me she can go as high as $200 total (but if I could get the rest for less this would be great) She can probably move her work off to a external devise??? This is why I was leaning towards a 128g max 7200rpm HD PATA instead of a SATA... Or would it be better to go with a SATA PCI card and a SATA HD that is a 128g max 7200rpm??? This is where I am stuck??? Also which way would be faster and how much faster??? Thank You everyone very much!!! Rich
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