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"THE ultimate PC"

well, not the ULTIMATE PC, but I would like to know everything I would need to build one of the best PC's going, the CPU, Graphics Card, RAM, everything, so.... what would I need.


P.S. money is not a problem.

H²O wrote:
> My PC is well good. Ive had it for about 3 years. But its the most
> stable and powerful PC ive used.

God that made me laugh...

> It's an AMD duron 800mhz (it sounds slow compared to new processors,
> but it is so fast and stable its unbeleivable) I have upgraded things
> around it.

I used to have a AMD Athlon 800MHz (It's motherboard died from overheated chipset) and I now have a P4 2.4Ghz and it is blisteringly faster. The AMD in XP was like wading through treakle, where as the 2.4 is perfectly responsive. I would suspect you are using 98/Me, and that you have only see the faster CPUs on XP. I would also suggest you OTT RAM has something to do with the speed as well...

My PC is well good. Ive had it for about 3 years. But its the most stable and powerful PC ive used.
It's an AMD duron 800mhz (it sounds slow compared to new processors, but it is so fast and stable its unbeleivable) I have upgraded things around it.
768mb RAM
Geforce FX 5200
Sound Blaster Audigy
Currently 20gb harddrive, because my 40gb one got currupt, had to throw away.
Surround sound.
19" monitor
42x CD-Rw
56x CD-R

I use it as a game PC, and it runs games perfectly, I see no need to update the processor yet.

Ah, sorry Adrian it's not.

Just a plain old IDE one.

ÈL ® ö B ì Ñ wrote:
> Where you get some of those prices from?
>
> For example that HDD is a lil pricey.
> My 160GB 8MB cache, western digital was about £60.

Is your 160Gb SATA? As that was what was quoted for the 120Gb in the price up list thingy below.

Allred wrote:
> Wow, I'm impressed. I'd heard a lot of bad things about Ebuyer, but
> they sound good from that.

Yer they are, all companies get bad reviews ect now and again, but you will never really know untill you try them out.

I just bought another new case for myself off them about 2 hours ago :P

Miserableman wrote:

> It is a general rule in buying computer stuff online that quality of
> website is inversely proportional to customer service. Which is a big
> shame.

Which retailer do you use?

Wow, I'm impressed. I'd heard a lot of bad things about Ebuyer, but they sound good from that.

Allred wrote:
> Overclockers UK. They are more expensive than Ebuyer but are a much
> better retailer with better customer support etc.

I agree, i buy 95% of my stuff from ebuyer, just spent £3000 almost there this morning. Dads mate wants a reeeeaalllyyy great computer.
If I was to add up all the quotes from ebuyer it must be almost £7000, and i keep going back because they are cheap and they have good customer service.
For example i bought some Elwire there the other week, i paid about £1 extra for the sound Elwire, but they sent the wrong one. They sent me the right one free of charge to show they were sorry.
Also our delivery was 3 days late, so they gave us free delivery on our next order.

Cheap, reliable and friendly.

Well, my experiances have been fine. Also, where do you shop for computer components then?

Allred wrote:
> Overclockers UK. They are more expensive than Ebuyer but are a much
> better retailer with better customer support etc.

Overclockers don't give a stuff about their customers. I know someone who used to work there and the general feeling was they had so many customers that losing some was no big deal.

It is a general rule in buying computer stuff online that quality of website is inversely proportional to customer service. Which is a big shame.