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I have been looking to build my own PC for a while now, and only last week I set the funds aside (after discovering I can use a savings account) and that my Dad will go halves with me. I emailed around some of the shops in my local area to get a few quotes and after a few days I assembled (well in my head) exactly what I wanted.
The following is the spec of my PC (so far):
Descriptions:
1 off, BO03 ATX MIDI TOWER CASE 300W ATHLON/P4 PSU
1 off, 1.44MB 3.5" FLOPPY DRIVE OEM (mitsumi)
1 off, GA-7ZXE Gigabyte Socket A Motherboard 3 Dimms 1000-2400XP (gigabyte)
1 off, AMD Athlon2200XP+ Socket A OEM (AMD)
1 off, AK785SE Akasa Athlon/Duron Cooler Up TO 2200XP (Akasa)
1 off, 48X12X48 CDRW ARTEC RE-WRITER RETAIL BOXED (Artec)
1 off, 20GB 5400RPM SEAGATE HARD DRIVE 9W1021-301 (Seagate)
2 off, 512MB PC133 BRANDED KINGSTON
1 off, 56K V92 MODEM INTEL CHIP SET RETAIL BOXED (Intel).
Sub Total £409.20
VAT £71.61
Total £480.81
+GE-FORCE 4 4200 TI4200 128MBDDR 8X AGP SP72288X £120.00 (Sparkle)
I think that is a remakable system? What are everyones thoughts. Will it run the latest games and the basics like I want it to? Is the card a decent price and is it any good?
Just look at that memory though! 1024mb DDR Dimm SD! And all that for just £530! I assume I can build it in a day of solid work and then config all the BIOS and op system in a few days.
I ordered my anti static equipment and am now just waiting till my Dad comes back from Wales (next Saturday :( ) with the magic plastic!
The following is the spec of my PC (so far):
Descriptions:
1 off, BO03 ATX MIDI TOWER CASE 300W ATHLON/P4 PSU
1 off, 1.44MB 3.5" FLOPPY DRIVE OEM (mitsumi)
1 off, GA-7ZXE Gigabyte Socket A Motherboard 3 Dimms 1000-2400XP (gigabyte)
1 off, AMD Athlon2200XP+ Socket A OEM (AMD)
1 off, AK785SE Akasa Athlon/Duron Cooler Up TO 2200XP (Akasa)
1 off, 48X12X48 CDRW ARTEC RE-WRITER RETAIL BOXED (Artec)
1 off, 20GB 5400RPM SEAGATE HARD DRIVE 9W1021-301 (Seagate)
2 off, 512MB PC133 BRANDED KINGSTON
1 off, 56K V92 MODEM INTEL CHIP SET RETAIL BOXED (Intel).
Sub Total £409.20
VAT £71.61
Total £480.81
+GE-FORCE 4 4200 TI4200 128MBDDR 8X AGP SP72288X £120.00 (Sparkle)
I think that is a remakable system? What are everyones thoughts. Will it run the latest games and the basics like I want it to? Is the card a decent price and is it any good?
Just look at that memory though! 1024mb DDR Dimm SD! And all that for just £530! I assume I can build it in a day of solid work and then config all the BIOS and op system in a few days.
I ordered my anti static equipment and am now just waiting till my Dad comes back from Wales (next Saturday :( ) with the magic plastic!
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Mine will be.....
AMD Athlon XP 2400 (2.0GHz)
ATX 400W Lian Li Midi Tower
Asus A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard
512MB 333MHz DDR RAM
Maxtor 120GB DiamondMax Plus9 (May go down to 80 gb seagate)
52/24/52 BURN PROOF
DVD-ROM 16x Speed
1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive
128MB DDR GeForce4 Ti4800 AGP (note price is of a 4400, 4800 is the same card but with 8x)
3Com 905CXTX
Creative SndBlaster Audigy 2 Player
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Price :
£826.54 ex VAT
£971.18 inc VAT
Ave it dells... they saying £999 for a piece of junk when u can get this kitty for this much.
AMD Athlon XP 2400 (2.0GHz)
ATX 400W Lian Li Midi Tower
Asus A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard
512MB 333MHz DDR RAM
Maxtor 120GB DiamondMax Plus9 (May go down to 80 gb seagate)
52/24/52 BURN PROOF
DVD-ROM 16x Speed
1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive
128MB DDR GeForce4 Ti4800 AGP (note price is of a 4400, 4800 is the same card but with 8x)
3Com 905CXTX
Creative SndBlaster Audigy 2 Player
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Price :
£826.54 ex VAT
£971.18 inc VAT
Ave it dells... they saying £999 for a piece of junk when u can get this kitty for this much.
Heh, well in the next few months, I'll be putting together a system that makes yours look fairly plain for.... £700.
The only thing I'm conceding is the monitor, since mine is 17" and is more than sufficient.
The only thing I'm conceding is the monitor, since mine is 17" and is more than sufficient.
Woah pretty expensive.....very infact.
Insane Bartender wrote:
> Fangface wrote:
> It was a complete system e.g. new mouse, keyboard everything I built
> myself and I parted with £1600 inc VAT.
>
> you built that yourself and spent that much?
>
> *shakes head despairingly*
All the cheapest prices possible from a number of different reputable sources
Monitor - £270 - total top of the range. Whats the point of having a powerful graphics card and a monitor that cannot display them at a decent resolution. Personally I normally play at 1600 x 1200 with AA and filtering on
RAM - £170 - Double the price but blistering speed and allows me the option of overclocking and pretty much future proof. The motherboard does not like cheap RAM at all and fails to work
Graphics card - £270 9700 PRO - if you want the best it costs
The case and power supply I have cost over £130 as well
Got a £170 soundcard and speaker setup which shakes the wall and a top DVD and CDRW which is wildly fast
Suit yourself if you think I`m mad - I got a nice Christmas bonus and have wanted to build the best possible system possible without paying too over the top for new gear e.g. CPU
> Fangface wrote:
> It was a complete system e.g. new mouse, keyboard everything I built
> myself and I parted with £1600 inc VAT.
>
> you built that yourself and spent that much?
>
> *shakes head despairingly*
All the cheapest prices possible from a number of different reputable sources
Monitor - £270 - total top of the range. Whats the point of having a powerful graphics card and a monitor that cannot display them at a decent resolution. Personally I normally play at 1600 x 1200 with AA and filtering on
RAM - £170 - Double the price but blistering speed and allows me the option of overclocking and pretty much future proof. The motherboard does not like cheap RAM at all and fails to work
Graphics card - £270 9700 PRO - if you want the best it costs
The case and power supply I have cost over £130 as well
Got a £170 soundcard and speaker setup which shakes the wall and a top DVD and CDRW which is wildly fast
Suit yourself if you think I`m mad - I got a nice Christmas bonus and have wanted to build the best possible system possible without paying too over the top for new gear e.g. CPU
Fangface wrote:
> It was a complete system e.g. new mouse, keyboard everything I built
> myself and I parted with £1600 inc VAT.
you built that yourself and spent that much?
*shakes head despairingly*
> It was a complete system e.g. new mouse, keyboard everything I built
> myself and I parted with £1600 inc VAT.
you built that yourself and spent that much?
*shakes head despairingly*
§n][pe® wrote:
> How much was all that?
> It almost like mine. but i aint getting a monitor and i aint building
> it myself.
It was a complete system e.g. new mouse, keyboard everything I built myself and I parted with £1600 inc VAT. I probably spent more than I had too but I love having the best quality possible. The only area I skimped at all was the CPU but the XP2400+ is certainly fast enough for the moment and I may jack a Barton into it at a later date
> How much was all that?
> It almost like mine. but i aint getting a monitor and i aint building
> it myself.
It was a complete system e.g. new mouse, keyboard everything I built myself and I parted with £1600 inc VAT. I probably spent more than I had too but I love having the best quality possible. The only area I skimped at all was the CPU but the XP2400+ is certainly fast enough for the moment and I may jack a Barton into it at a later date
Tóm wrote:
> There's never a hard drive that's too big. No matter how big it is,
> you always manage to fill it - somehow.
---------
Indeed. Back when this PC was a 486, we had 500mb, which we filled (back in the day when games took up less than 30mb) then 2gig, filled that, then 20 gig, filled that, now it's 100 gig, and it's so full I'm having to buy another 80 gig just for myself (games, programmes and porn-ahem, I mean MP3s)
It's the games I tells ya! They take over 1 gig each nowdays!
> There's never a hard drive that's too big. No matter how big it is,
> you always manage to fill it - somehow.
---------
Indeed. Back when this PC was a 486, we had 500mb, which we filled (back in the day when games took up less than 30mb) then 2gig, filled that, then 20 gig, filled that, now it's 100 gig, and it's so full I'm having to buy another 80 gig just for myself (games, programmes and porn-ahem, I mean MP3s)
It's the games I tells ya! They take over 1 gig each nowdays!
250gig hard drive, how long has he had that for?.
c.b.
c.b.
My 60 gig hard drive defrags in about 2 hours tops, and if I do it every few weeks, to keep everything nice and smooth it only takes about 25-30 minutes!!
Tóm wrote:
> There's never a hard drive that's too big. No matter how big it is,
> you always manage to fill it - somehow.
>
> Get a big hard drive.
The HDD I am currently using this computer to write this back chat to you is 20gigs 5400rpm. Same as the new one I am getting. This computer is 3/4years old and I have never never ever gone above 11.5 gigs. So Tom in my case I am afraid you are wrong. yes !!!WRONG!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
O yeah my my dad has a 250gig HDD, only used 18gigs and has hundreds of hours of video on it (he is a photographer,etc).
> There's never a hard drive that's too big. No matter how big it is,
> you always manage to fill it - somehow.
>
> Get a big hard drive.
The HDD I am currently using this computer to write this back chat to you is 20gigs 5400rpm. Same as the new one I am getting. This computer is 3/4years old and I have never never ever gone above 11.5 gigs. So Tom in my case I am afraid you are wrong. yes !!!WRONG!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
O yeah my my dad has a 250gig HDD, only used 18gigs and has hundreds of hours of video on it (he is a photographer,etc).
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