For a pc im building im not sure on a psu. It will have a
p4 3ghz
msi s775 mobo
1gb ddr2 4300 ram
2x ide cd\dvd drives
1x 200gb ata133 hard drive
ati x700
1x pci card (tv tuner card)

is a 350w power supply enough. Fortron/source? Are they any good?

Plus... is twinmos memory good as they are cheaper than corsair

One point to mention. If your installation CD of Win2000 doesn't have at least SP3 slipstreamed into it then even if your BIOS can regognise the 200GB drive, Win2000 won't. There are some workarounds.

Any socket 775 mobo should be juiced by a PSU sporting the ATX 12V version 2.0
This will have the 24 pin 12v rail and will make your new mobo happy as a clam. That being said, you will require a MINIMUM of 400W psu to supply enough juice to that cpu and 256MB X700 PCI-E video card. Anything less and you're going to be disappointed when you smell something burning. Get something along the lines of 450W and up and remember the ATX 2.0 specifications.

ASUS P5GD1
P-4 3.4 SOCKET 775 OCed to 3.9
1G Corsaire PC400
ABIT RX600SE 256MB PCI-E

thanks. by the way i installed windows 2000 without any service pack. as long as i didn't try to format it then it had no probloms with my 200gb hd. (sorry forgot to mention, my hd is being moved to my new pc) My current bios only supports 80gb hds. I used maxblast which strangly is no longer present.

I suppose since the cpu has ht i should use windows xp (which i own but really really hate and dont use for its stupid user friendlyness annoyance and limitations) I suppose i have to use it for ht.

Well you may have no problems, then again? Look here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q305098#kb1
You mean you used the drive utilities to partition and format the drive or make the entire disk usable? If you have a drive overlay installed on that disk you will have problems migrating it to the new system without deleting the partitions or possibly installing the overlay, not sure about that. You may not be aware of what a drive overlay actually is and the impact of using one. You may want to read up on it. I suggest you backup your personal files to removable media, like CDR or DVDR and then delete the partitions on the drive and create new partitions, none of which is larger than 120GB. This way you won't need to use the overlay. There are many benifits of using multiple partitions anyway.

windows 2000 overwrote the boot sector and the overlay has since gone. The drive works fine for a year and a half now probobly because its using under 80gb. hopefully it will work.
I was also wonder if you have a 450w psu and say your pc only uses 380w, will it operate at 380w or at a constant 450w wasting electricity as 450w is over twice the 200w that i have now and means alot more electricity

Your reply indicates that you installed the SATA disk as a slave, not the boot disk. Never the less, if you are using this disk without having SP3 or a registry hack you will eventually have problems.

*Just to make the hd issue clear
ATA-133 (not sata) running on ata-100 standard i440bx mobo.
Its the master\boot\single hd in the computer.
I have windows 2000 sp4.
no ddo. Does this clear up the hd issue?, hopefully now leaving the psu electricity consumption to be answered.

I won't post about the drive size again but you WILL have a problem when you repartition.

as far as the psu issue. no the psu will only generate the power req'd for the system so you wont be wasting electricity

Amd 64 3000 msi neo2 platinium 1gig ddr 400

sorry if i seemed rude but i dont mind about posting about the hd but i hoped to clear it. what do you mean about repartitioning and a problom. i plan on leaving the hard drive as it is for the new pc.

I believe you stated the HD is showing 80GB of the 200GB HD. Even if you leave the drive that way there is still a possibility of data corruption. If a legitimate 80GB partition currently exists and the remainder of the drive shows as unpartitioned, unformatted space then you are probably OK to continue using as you have. I assumed you were planning on reclaiming the better half of that drive that is currently not used. If you do that without proper precautions you will be at risk for potential data loss or corruption. This is addressed in the MSKB article I pointed to in a previous reply.

the bios supports up to 80gb hard drives but the partition is the full 200gb. I was saying that i havent gone over 80gb and thats probobly why its had no probloms

How can the partition be a full 200GB if the computer it was created only supports 28 bit LBA, which should allow 128GB/137GB disk size. Did you read the MSKB article I referred to early on? Another point to make is that there is also a risk of data loss when swapping a HD that had an overlay, as yours did, and upgrading the OS. Evidently in your case there wase no problem. If you haven't read that MSKB article I recommend you do so.

i've read the microsoft article and i hope to have no probloms when i upgrade since there insn't an overlay any more as windows 2000 overwrote it.