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"this was a good deal......right???????"

AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1400MHz £39.99
MSI K7T Turbo Motherboard £29.99
Heatsink & Fan £9.99
Keyboard £5.99
Mouse £5.99
17” Monitor £89.99
ATX Case & 300 Watt PSU £29.99
CD-ROM £19.99
Floppy Drive £7.99
512mb PC133 SDRAM RAM £76.99
ATI Radeon 9000 Pro £82.99
Total £399.92

oooooh finally a proper DX8.1 card for under £100
Radeon 9000 Pro totally kicks GF4 MX's *bum*
and also beats GF3Ti200 - not too shabby for £80

(i already had a spare 40gb HD lying around)

now i have another computer to play multiplayer with, my other box is

Athlon 1700+
512 SDRAM (i know)
GeForce4 Ti4400

I've just ordered some bits from ebuyer.com, extremely cheap XP1600 chip 37.36 plus vat !

Board and Processor came from Special reserve, they have the cpu in clearance in their catalogue (MS-6330 is the board)

Everything else came from Jungle.com

I'm thinking of building a new PC, my other one is about 4 years old
AMD K2 500/ 256k ram/ Voodoo 2/ etc
I don't play that many games on it now I've got my PS2 but want to get into the PC scene.
I like the idea of being able to buy bits here and there when I have some spare cash.
Amazing what you can build for £400 !

That's a nice monitor price. I need a second, mine looks so lonely sitting there on its own.

In particular, board & processor?

Where you get it all?

is that all, it seems like more

mayb its cos i read practically everything but dont reply much, how many posts do u have to make

yup, same goes for keyboards, the cheap ones i've had are only good for a few months, and the keys are pap!
My mouse is lovely though, (Logitech Trackman) cost £45 but it's about £20 now...worth every penny, good for games too.

You've only made 34 posts though..

I find that its deffo worth paying extra for mice, get an optical, you wont regret it, my current mouse has lasted as long as my last three put together!

might get another 512 then!!!!!!

the mouse does have a wheel, and is better than my old one which cost £17 (overpriced piece of crap)

don't see anything wrong with the keyboard either, it does the job fine


all in all i'm pretty chuffed with myself


and i don't know who made the CD-Rom (unboxed) and i cant be bothered to check the top of it.


ps. i've been here for months now and i'm still a newbie