Bu1lding a new office pc...

[B1os]

Hi people Hope you can give me some advice on this, I am building a PC for my home office, it is solely for things like Acess and internet and LAN. I have a budget of £400 and after a TFT and Keyboard / Mouse it will be about £300 for components
I'll probably get it all from scan and I was thinking something like
o Intel Celeron D355 Socket 775, 3.33GHz, 256KBCache, Retail £55
o Foxconn RC4107MA-8KRS ATI RX200, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 667, SATA I, SATA RAID, uATX, On Board VGA £54
o 160 Gb Maxtor 6V160EO DiamondMax 10, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache, NCQ, 9.0 ms £40
o 1GB Corsair Value Select, DDR2 PC5300 (667), 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-15 £53
o JJ Nu-4292 Ivory Midi Tower with 400W PFC PSU Screwless £45
o Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2 OEM Single £60

Well how does that sound? I would really apreciate any sugestions
B1oas

[amjedm]

I haven't used Maxtor hard disks but according to some they're not as good as Seagate, WD or Samsung so you may want to change it.

[B1os]

Oh thanks for that I'll go for a Seagate. Any ideas if this is a good setup?

[amjedm]

Oh thanks for that I'll go for a Seagate. Any ideas if this is a good setup?

All machines I've built (all have been office/basic) have been AMD so I don't know much about the Intel setup. Having said that the type of processor you've gone for is right for an office machine IMO but as prices are coming down in a couple of weeks you may be able to get a better processor - AMD Athlon 64 - for same or less than?

The Corsair Value RAM is good according to a thread I saw on here a week or two ago.

I notice you've changed the case - this comes with psu. No experience of the case or psu but the SilverPower 400 you previously listed got a good review in CustomPC a few months back. I've got the 350 SilverPower - not currently used but is heavy (sign of a good psu I think) and seems to be ok.

Edit: the case looks similar to one of the Evercase models - http://www.evercase.co.uk/ECE4292B.htm. There may be some info about the case on www.silentpcreview.com.

Not sure of the quality of the included psu though and as this is a very important if not the most important part of the computer you may want to have second thoughts on the case?

[B1os]

Yeah thanks for the reply, Celeron D seems a good choice, thats about the equivilant of a 2.8 pentium 4 (not for multi-tasking though) Its basicaly just would the ram work with the motherboard work with the cpu as I have never bought socket 775 stuff and there are loads of choices on scan which I don't understand About the PSU, I thought that a supplied PSU will be sufficient, it certainly is the most expensive in it's category (although it's category is value lol) but I think it will be fine as it won't be powering any GFX cards or more than 1HDD etc.