Originally Posted by cookie_365

Good thinking Patrickp

I was going to recycle my 160GB IDE from my current machine to the new one, but then I'd have Windows and not much else on the new 300GB and not enough on the old one for My Documents. I'll maybe get a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 NCQ 80GB SATA150 7200rpm 8MB for XP in addition to the 300 GB.

And since I've decided not to get a PVR just yet I'm going to spend the dosh anyway - I'll go for the A8N-E mobo together with Corsair Memory TWINX2048 - 3200C2PT XMS3200 2x1GB 2x184DIMM CAS2 memory since that's been tested as working in this mobo. And if I'm paying for all that, it'd be churlish not to go for the dual-core while I'm at it

This is why I haven't done this kind of thing before - it's so easy just to keep spending more money (at least if I wasn't spending time with all this I'd probably be spending the same money in clothes shops anyway )

The wrist strap I've got has a wire with a bulldog clip that you attach to the radiator/metal PC case. As I mentioned, I've taken out & replaced the CPU, changed the CPU heatsink, replaced memory, disks etc on the current machine with it and nothing's zapped yet; no way am I working on a PC while it's still plugged in - and if I zap the mobo, well, I'll just have to buy another

Final decision expected monday morning .....