Build me a system What components would you buy and where from?

Go to apple refurb store, open Wednesday. Also get the moneysaving Apple voucher from moneysaving expert.com and buy a iMac.

he might want a big boys computer though.

939 Socket board, asus or dfi, no sli, unless you have dbl budget.

Opteron 144 or 146

450+ PSU atx2, sli approved (stable etc)

P180 Antec case

7800GT

1 or 2Gb of Ram.

Two sata discs Raid 1

Large Scratch Disk

If anything is left over: usb disk enclosure and a linksys nslu2 for cheap network attached storage of your old drives.

I'll price it up later, but it should be in range...

Shopping, tekheads.co.uk local to you, ebuyer.co.uk if you must, Aria.co.uk local to you, microdirect.co.uk between us, overclock.co.uk, quick service, scan.co.uk can have deals and plenty of others...

Cant really design a system with out knowing whats going to be used for.. ?

Thanks

Joel

I would spend it on Lego and build you a nice red and yellow one. Hope this helps

I'd get this I think.

Could budget back a bit on the PSU perhaps?

PCICASE CS2600-BKS1 Hyperline II Black/Silver ATX Tower Case - No PSU 090900 132 £18.70 £18.70

NEC ND-4550 16x DVD±RW/RAM Double Layer Internal IDE (Black) - OEM 097315 49 £22.99 £22.99

Seagate ST380011A Barracuda 80GB 7200RPM ATA/100 2MB Cache - OEM 036369 414 £28.98 £28.98

CRUCIAL 1GB DDR PC3200 400MHz 184-PIN UNBUFF 128MX64 Memory Modules 065719 83 £49.42 £49.42

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium skt939 nForce4 Gigabit Ethernet Firewire 8channel audio 098587 61 £95.24 £95.24

Hiper 580W Type-R Modular PSU - Black with UV reacted cables 098562 35 £51.04 £51.04

AMD Athlon 64 (ADA4600BVBOX) X2 4600+ socket 939 Dual Core 2.4Ghz 512kb and 512kb Cache 091325 84 £332.24 £332.24

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Mesh Computers do a cube system all built for £699..... Athlon64x2, 1gb Ram blah blah blah.........

Or, as someone has mentioned, Apple...

I've just ordered a Mac Mini via the Education store, with 3 year warranty and a 1GB upgrade, 1.66Ghz Intel core Duo...80GB SATA....Airport.....

Unless you want to shoot the alien hordes or something, what more do you really need?

Buy a Medion from Aldi and save the rest of the money.

http://www.aldi.co.uk/special_buys/product_946.html

Buy a Medion from Aldi and save the rest of the money.

http://www.aldi.co.uk/special_buys/product_946.html

DAMN!

Is that Aldi one decent or no? Doesn't say much about the internals. Seems to have the magic over 3ghz figure, but I see that word.... "celeron" :eek:

I thought you were offering yourself as a hexpert 5 posts ago, Jason :P

Is that Aldi one decent or no? Doesn't say much about the internals. Seems to have the magic over 3ghz figure, but I see that word.... "celeron" :eek:

It's ok for the price but nothing stunning.

The new Celeron D processors are actually quite respectable now and far better than their predecessors

I thought you were offering yourself as a hexpert 5 posts ago, Jason :P

Look into my eyes, look into my eyes, the eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes, don't look around my eyes, look into my eyes, you're under. You will believe that I am some super computer nerdy geek who knows everything about how PCs work. You will think I know my CPUs and every intricate detail about them, you will think I know my celerons from my P4 and AMDs and know instantly that any PC is good/bad value just from a price and a small spec sheet. Three, two, one... You're back in the room.