want to spend my moneh?

[Oni]

The situation is:
Im selling old PC... need new one... have £500-600 to spend purly on what goes inside the PC. (total budget of £1,100 on a new PC, but have already chosen a monitor and keyboard etc.)

The shuttle I chose:
Biostar IDEQ 200A Barebones System (FS-000-BS) (overclockersuk site)
- Supports Socket 478 processors upto 800FSB
- ATI RS300 and ATI IXP150 Chipsets
- Dual-Channel DDR400 Support
- Onboard ATI Radeon 9100 Graphics
- 1 x AGP 8x and 1 x PCI slots
- 4 x USB 2.0 Ports
- 2 x IEEE1394 Firewire Ports
- Serial ATA with RAID 0,1 support
- 6 Channel Audio
- 10/100 LAN
- Dimensions: 210mm x 323mm x 187mm (W x D x H)

could someone help me with what to buy to make this a system for games and photoshop work please?? (I wont need a floppy drive.)
(links to specific parts and prices would be greatly appreciated)
Regards,
Matt

[GJUK]

Intel Pentium 4 "Northwood" 3.0GHz (800FSB) with HT Technology - Retail (CP-023-IN) £129.95
Pioneer DVR-107 8x DVD±RW (Black) - OEM (CD-019-PO) £55.50
Samsung SP1614C 160GB - OEM (HD-012-SA) £68.50
Connect3D ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB TV-Out/DVI - Retail (GX-005-CO) 111.95
Biostar IDEQ 200A Barebones System (FS-000-BS) £139.95
TwinMOS 512MB (2x256MB) DDR PC3200 Dual Channel Kit (MY-006-TM) £69.95
Subtotal £575.80
Shipping (Amtrak Next Day (Mon-Fri) - UK Mainland) £9.75
VAT £102.47
Total £688.02

Ok it over the £600 but this will be a nice machine I reckon to dsave cash you could pick up the CPU 2nd hand to save a bit


GJUK

[Oni]

nice one gary
is all of that from any particular site or did you use multiple sites?

and are you absolutely sure all that is compatible etc? (not doubting you, just dont wanna get it and it not work etc

[GJUK]

all from OCUK

as For Compatible not to sure never used a Biostar - Like my shuttles 2 much I never had a problem with Twinmoss in p4 system so I reckon you be ok - you could check with OCUK sales/tech team to make sure

[Oni]

brilliant.
cheers

[GJUK]

no worries only thing I put a black DVD-RW they do Silver ones(different make) so you can get so it all looks nice and pretty

Spend a bit more and get a shuttle - Shame OCuk no longer sell them

[Oni]

I know u supplied specs etc for that one... but if I said to you I have 1,100 to spend on a small PC with a 17" flatscreen... what would you buy with it? cause thats basically all im after.

oh... and it has to play latest games and be able to run photoshop nicely

[Atomic]

For a flatscreen the LG 1710B or the Samsung 172X.

[GJUK]

Intel Pentium 4 "Northwood" 3.0GHz (800FSB) with HT Technology - Retail (CP-023-IN) £129.95
Samsung SP1614C 160GB - OEM (HD-012-SA) £68.50
Connect3D ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB TV-Out/DVI - Retail (GX-005-CO) £111.95
Biostar IDEQ 200A Barebones System (FS-000-BS) £139.95
TwinMOS 512MB (2x256MB) DDR PC3200 Dual Channel Kit (MY-006-TM) £139.90
Logitech Cordless Desktop MX - Retail (KB-007-LG) £62.95
LG Flatron L1710B 17" TFT Monitor (MO-003-LG) £285.50
Sony DWU-18A 8x DVD±RW ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-023-SO) £51.00
Subtotal £989.70
Shipping (Amtrak Next Day (Mon-Fri) - UK Mainland) £14.25
VAT £175.69
Total £1,179.64


All from OCUK there a loads of shops that sell SFF stuff so hunt around places that I use are

www.aria.co.uk
www.microdirect.co.uk
www.overclockers.co.uk
www.gemma.co.uk - never used but sell sff stuff


Atomic - great minds think alike

[Oni]

brilliant! thats what I want baby!

[GJUK]

well Have fun building it let me know how you get on

[Oni]

will do... It peobably wont be for the next few weeks... due to selling my current one and waiting for wage packet