Hey peeps, just about to build this system up for someone, and I was wondering if you guys could give it the once-over and maybe find some areas to tweak the spec?
2 things - the case stays (specifically requested), and it must have 2 HDD's(one small boot drive and a large storage drive) and a DVD-/+RW..
The spec:
Comes to a total of £487 which rounds up to a total of £500 when I add the £13 shipping chargeCode:Crucial 512 DDR333 PC2700 DIMM £49.49 £49.49 AMD ATHLON XP2500 333MHz 512 L2 Cache Barton CPU - OEM £56.00 £56.00 Western Digital Caviar SE 40Gb UIDE 100 7200rpm 8mb Cache Disk Drive - OEM £37.99 £37.99 Sapphire Radeon 9200 128MB DDR TV-Out DVI-Out Retail Box £49.99 £49.99 Coolermaster HAC-V81 XDream Heatsink & Fan SKT A Upto Xp2800 Speed Adjustment £5.32 £5.32 NEC 4x DVD DUAL R/RW IDE BURNER - OEM S/W Not included £66.82 £66.82 Western Digital Caviar 80Gb 7200rpm EIDE Hard Drive - OEM £41.99 £41.99 IBM PS2 MultiMedia Keyboard Black £5.59 £5.59 Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical 2 Button USB Win 32bit £14.05 £14.05 Ebuyer Neon Bubble ATX Midi Tower 350watt PSU with Front USB & Audio in Silver £37.73 £37.73 Asus A7N8X-X SKT A Nforce AGP X8 Sound USB 2.0 Motherboard Retail Box £46.08 £46.08
£500 is the maximum budget.. what do you lot think?


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. It really is very very quiet, and due to being 80mm has good cooling.

I agree the Xdream isn't bad but is a value (like Tesco Value) part designed to take on TT's Volcanos. Speaking of which that's my vote, £15ish for a Volcano 11/12 from Dabs or CPUcity (IIRC). Unless you go for the expensive professional HS that's about as good as it gets.
I can't see why you'd choose PC2700 when PC3200 comes in for the same price. If you were only buying RAM then Crucial's free P&P makes a lot of sense otherwise I'd seriously look to TwinMOS from CPUcity or Komplett. Rem 2x256MB if you want the Dual Channel boost (on DC mobos of course).
Finally Rad9200. It's slower than the FX5200 and Rad9000PRO which isn't good. If gaming is important to this guy definitely rec he spends a little more on it for the likes of a GF4TI4200 or Rad9600PRO as buying anything less will really castrate the PC's gamability. It would make much more sense to use a TbredB/Thorton or even a Duron 1.6ghz and up the gfx card unless gaming is a small concern.
I understand there is a budget and us techie's like to spend a little more, well, everywhere and of course upgradin later is easily done. The above PC is more than fine, just giving my opinions on each component choice. HTH!
