Building a DREAM System to MAKE PS2 games

[Chaldo2002PS2]

Hello guys
Whats up ?


well am from Detroit USA
and i have 2 PS2 systems which am chipping sooon with the MESSIAH chip ...

am also bulding me a NEW PC
and i just wanted to ask you guys for any Suggestions or recommendations or anything that i should add to my pc to improve or speeed up backing up games .

well here are my SPECS

AMD athlon Xp 2.1 ghz
1 gig DDR ram
2 maxtor 60 gig HD's
Pioneer DVD-ROM drive
Pioneer DVR-A04 DVD-R/RW Drive
Plextor 40x12x40 Plextor CDRW
VisionTek Geforce4 4600
Sound Blaster Audiology platinum ex
Asus A7V333 Socket A/KT333/DDR Mother board

ok What do you guys think ? any room for improvment ?
please let me know

Note: i wanna cut down on one of the cd-rom drives
but if i cut the dvd-rom drive i will have to play my DVD's in the burner which has a read speed of only 2x compare to 16x
please guys leave me some feed back '

thank you

Joey