Copy DVD's? Which format? Are you sure that's what you are getting? The cheapest DVDR's I've seen are around 350-400 dollars. There are some DVD/CDR/CDRW drives out there, but don't think they will burn DVD's. Even among DVDR's many of them are cartridge based and of a different format then the dvd's you play in your home dvd player. The way you wrote it, 12x/32x DVD doesn't necessarily mean those are write speeds. It probably means that you have a 12x DVD and a 32x CD read speed.
Also, I'd strongly recomend getting the Athlon XP series. The Palomino chip is significantly faster then the Thunderbird. As far as HD's go, Western Digital just came out with a 160 gig, 7200 rpm, ATA 100 drive for 299 which is a hell of a deal. Have fun!!
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