Re: Take a look at my specs, please...
 

I did have a site but iv lost it had a ranking system for UK suppliers im sure it was rommell or romell something or other and if I remember rightly scan.co.uk did rank quite highly there so does komplett.co.uk

If I do come across again it Ill edit and post the link ;)

EDIT:
http://www.romulus2.com/feedback/chart.php?1

of course like all online rankings they can be manipulated so dont believe just the one place.

Re: Take a look at my specs, please...
 

Well, in the end, I only bought a few things from ebuyer - the case, the memory and the processor - the rest I got from scan....

Changed the motherboard for the next version up with the wifi card, changed the dvd writer for another one, and got a 200 gb drive instead, since they were all on special on scan...

It's all arrived today... i'm all excited now :)

Re: Take a look at my specs, please...
 

We look forward to lots of 'where does this plug go' thread ;) :)

Re: Take a look at my specs, please...
 

You may laugh, but 10 years ago when I was putting an additional hard drive into a machine for the time ever - I had to call an engineer out, to 'fix' my machine, when it wouldn't boot.
It wouldn't boot even after I had removed the new drive...all that happened was it beeped when I turned it on...

Engineer came in, swapped over mouse and keyboard leads, machine booted... oh hum
:dunce: :blush: :)

Re: Take a look at my specs, please...
 

Have fun building :)

And always double check before you do your final switch on.

Re: Take a look at my specs, please...
 

Well put it together on Saturday, all seemed ok - however, had no end of problems with the sata drive - sometimes the controller would see it sometimes it wouldn't, could only format 137 gb of the drive using a seagate disc, windows just fell over when trying to do anything with it, when it wasn't losing the disc.
Ran a seagate diagnostic tool on the drive, it says there is something wrong with it, and that I should return it.

Called scan and arranged to send it back... going to go to pcworld and get a big ide drive, so i can use my system as I don't want to wait for 2 weeks - once they decide whether or not the drive is faulty, I'll decide if I want a new one or not....

Funny how it works out - of all the bits I thought I was going to have problems with, the hard drive wasn't one of them.. oh well...

Incidentally, the bios says my memory is running at 200Mhz, dual channel - is that right? or should it be higher?