I've got a pioneer 303S, it's a 6x SCSI DVD drive. I think it's called 103 in the USA. Assuming the 106 is a never generation of the same drive i would highly recommend it. My drive is great for ripping.

I used to use cdparanioa to rip manually. It would give a realtime report of all the error corrections it would make. Using my pioneer drive it would rip flawlessly with no error corrections required. It is also much quicker at ripping than any other drive i have used (i haven't used a plextor though).

My only concern with that system would be the Intel chip. An Athlon will get you much better performance, and save you money too! (Unless you are mainly going to be running some SEE optimised application?)

Allot of 3D games are clock for clock a little faster on the P3, but for just about everything else, clock for clock the Athlon is faster. And for the same amount of money you can get a faster clocked athlon so that for the same amount of cash, you get faster 3D games, despite the clock for clock disadvantage, which is most probably due to SSE optimsations (hopefully we will see more 3dnow optimisations now that the Athlon has a good chunk of the market).