In a Simialir vein to Yuck, to click or not

[Gengi]

Qty Product QuickFind Stock Price Line Total
Kingston 1gb 400MHz DDR Non-ECC CL3 (3-3-3) DIMM (Kit 2) 049296 110 £93.26 £186.52
Microsoft XP Home With Service Pack 1A OEM 050264 399 £49.76 £49.76
Maxtor Diamondmax 80gb SATA 150 7200rpm 8mb Cache - Retail Boxed 057071 18 £49.29 £49.29
Super Flower Real 520w Quadruple Fan Psu Black, AMD and Intel Compliant
051349 59 £42.99 £85.98
AMD (Newcastle) Athlon 64 3500+/2.2ghz L2-512kb Box 939pin 063121 2 £211.80 £211.80
XFX GeForce 6800 GT 256MB DDR3 Dual DVI/TV-Out Retail Box 062615 38 £271.70 £271.70
Abit AV8 SKT939 K8T800PRO 800FSB 8xAGP SATA Sound GIG LAN Retail Box 064800 10 £69.74 £69.74
Chieftec Dragon DX-01 Silver ATX Case No PSU 055549 7 £31.99 £31.99
LG 12x DVD DUAL R/RW/RAM Int Ide Burner - Retail Box 062680 449 £59.45 £59.45
Liteon 52x32x52x IDE DRIVE - Retail Box 050746 163 £14.03 £14.03
Labtec Pulse 375 Speakers 058363 163 £13.55 £13.55
Senheiser Pc130 Headset + Microphone 064989 10 £26.25 £52.50
Benq FP791DPF 17ins TFT 0.264mm 16ms Response Time Digital Picture Frame 81khz with Built-in SRS Speaker dvi-d/d-sub Inputs Tco95 046535 23 £322.23 £322.23
P4C800-E Deluxe SKT478 I875 ATX Sound Gig LAN USB 2.0 FSB800 Retail Box 054256 131 £102.81 £102.81
Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHZ 800FSB SKT478 512Kb Cache Retail Boxed 047547 247 £124.22 £124.22
Microsoft Black Optical PS2/USB Wheel Mouse 045463 2813 £12.16 £12.16
Microsoft Black Multimedia PS2 Keyboard 051984 53 £14.81 £14.81
- remove item Cart Total: £1672.54

Deliver my Order by: Tue 17th Aug 2004 (Priority Express Service)Wed 18th Aug 2004 (Priority Service)Thu 19th Aug 2004 (Standard Service)Mon 23rd Aug 2004 (Super Saver)Sat 21st Aug 2004 (Saturday Delivery)
Shipping Band: £4.99
Approx Cart Weight: 44.51Kg
Shipping Surcharge: £7.50
SubTotal: £1685.03
VAT: £294.97
Total: £1980.00


The P4 and motherboard and half the Ram is for an upgrade to the wifes PC (she currently has a 2 gig p4 in a 4x AGP board that only takes RAMBUS Ram early adoption sometimes sucks)

The other stuff is for a spangly new job for me.

Any criticisms, alternatives LOL's etc would be appreciated.

Later

 

[Tom]

Get a Zalman quiet PSU, will make a nice difference to the noise. Perhaps consider water cooling to make the whole thing silent (the gfx fan will make a fair old din).

 

[inactionman]

Look's ok although some recommendations:

- I wouldn't normally recommend socket 939 at the mo, as you get better price/performance on 754 (plus the real feature for 939, PCI-E, isn't out yet)
- Nforce Mobo's tend to be better, particularly if you're getting an nVidia card (on chip ethernet is nice)
- The hard drive is very expensive! I bought a 160Gb IBM SATA for only a tenner more! It was OEM mind, but that makes no real difference (no box, cable, etc)
- That PSU is too cheap for 520W, and I've never heard of them! Can't recommend Antec PSU's enough, the Zalman is nice but shuts down if it gets too hot, whilst on the Antec's the fans just spin up. Always get a quality PSU, as if the PSU blows it tends to take most of the other components with it. Also you prob only need about 350-400W
- No need to get a 12x burner, it's not an official spec, so no 12x media (only 16x)
- Logictech 2.1 speakers are good for only a tenner or so more
- Throughly recommend the Medusa headset, it's 5.1 with a mic and cheaper than the senheisers, although I don't think ebuyer stock them
- For about £70 more you can get a good 19" 16ms gaming TFT (e.g. phillips) tho they tend to be analogue only

 

[Gengi]

Thanks for the replies so far, will take onboard the points made.
Will definitely look into a different PSU and have a look at an nForce Mobo, also will look to an 8 or 4x dvd writer as I really don't do much burning, just trying to future proof as much as I can

Later