Building new pc

[iain_herts]

Hi all i wonder if any1 can help me out i built a computer at college last year and now my uncle and antie are asking me to build a computer for them.I have been doing some reasurch on compontes and i wonder if you could tell me wot u think of this and if any else has and suggestions then please say i have between £250 - £350 to spend and no need for a OS.
All the compents are found on ebuyer

(case) Antler Pc-146 Atx Midi Tower Blue 350w P4 Psu Front Usb
(MoBo)PcChips M848ALU SKT A SIS 748 400 DDR AGPx8 ATA133 6CH Sound/lAN/USB 2.0 Upto a 3.2+ CPU Motherboard in Retail Box
(ram)Crucial 512 DDR333 PC2700 DIMM
(HDD)Excelstor 60Gb 7200rpm ATA100
(CPU)AMD Athlon XP2500 333FSB 512 L2 Cache Barton Retail Boxed Inc Heatsink & Fan with 3year Warranty


Total: £213.35

Thanks for any suggestions made

iain

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by iain_herts

Hi all i wonder if any1 can help me out i built a computer at college last year and now my uncle and antie are asking me to build a computer for them.I have been doing some reasurch on compontes and i wonder if you could tell me wot u think of this and if any else has and suggestions then please say i have between £250 - £350 to spend and no need for a OS.
All the compents are found on ebuyer

(case) Antler Pc-146 Atx Midi Tower Blue 350w P4 Psu Front Usb
(MoBo)PcChips M848ALU SKT A SIS 748 400 DDR AGPx8 ATA133 6CH Sound/lAN/USB 2.0 Upto a 3.2+ CPU Motherboard in Retail Box
(ram)Crucial 512 DDR333 PC2700 DIMM
(HDD)Excelstor 60Gb 7200rpm ATA100
(CPU)AMD Athlon XP2500 333FSB 512 L2 Cache Barton Retail Boxed Inc Heatsink & Fan with 3year Warranty


Total: £213.35

Thanks for any suggestions made

iain

Everything looks fine apart from the board. IMO pc chips boards are trouble. Try and get an Abit or Asus board !

[Tricky]

depending what they're going to use it for you could save a few £'s on a 40gb hdu
Buy the ram in 2x 256 if you want 512mb
Where's your graphics card?

[darkangel]

Originally Posted by Tricky

Where's your graphics card?

onboard gfx on that mobo

[Tricky]

Originally Posted by darkangel

onboard gfx on that mobo

Missed that one!

[iain_herts]

well they will be doing alot of images on there and their daughter will most probly be playing her games on it (the sims lol)

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by iain_herts

Hi all i wonder if any1 can help me out i built a computer at college last year and now my uncle and antie are asking me to build a computer for them.I have been doing some reasurch on compontes and i wonder if you could tell me wot u think of this and if any else has and suggestions then please say i have between £250 - £350 to spend and no need for a OS.
All the compents are found on ebuyer

(case) Antler Pc-146 Atx Midi Tower Blue 350w P4 Psu Front Usb
(MoBo)PcChips M848ALU SKT A SIS 748 400 DDR AGPx8 ATA133 6CH Sound/lAN/USB 2.0 Upto a 3.2+ CPU Motherboard in Retail Box
(ram)Crucial 512 DDR333 PC2700 DIMM
(HDD)Excelstor 60Gb 7200rpm ATA100
(CPU)AMD Athlon XP2500 333FSB 512 L2 Cache Barton Retail Boxed Inc Heatsink & Fan with 3year Warranty


Total: £213.35

Thanks for any suggestions made

iain

I think if you have a look on Dabs (I wish I could remember where) they have some discounted motherboards, when I last looked there was a Gigabyte 7VAXP going for £35 inc. vat. I'd probably avoid anything made by PC Chips too, you don't want the hassle of having to return it to Ebuyer (which is a whole other chore in itself), you could probably spend a tenner of so extra and get something different.

[basa]

Originally Posted by darkangel

onboard gfx on that mobo

Yup..and another good reason not to go near PC Chips mobos !!
(Not a Micro ATX by any chance...onboard gfx usually only come on Micros ??)
:p

[iain_herts]

hi wot about a AOpen SoA nForce 2 ATX A V L AK79G-1394 i have one of these in my pc right now after haveing my other which was built at college called back due to alot of probs with mem and now have the aopen 1 which runs like a dream

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by iain_herts

hi wot about a AOpen SoA nForce 2 ATX A V L AK79G-1394 i have one of these in my pc right now after haveing my other which was built at college called back due to alot of probs with mem and now have the aopen 1 which runs like a dream

Aopen make some nice boards, I'd say with the crucial memory you've bought it should work fine.

[iain_herts]

so if i just change the mobo with the apoen one do u think that is a good system then

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by iain_herts

so if i just change the mobo with the apoen one do u think that is a good system then

If the Aopen comes with the onboard graphics chip (which some NF and NF2 boards don't) then yeah, for that price it's pretty good.

[iain_herts]

yeah it does cos i have the same board

[Doofy]

Just jumping in hope no one minds? just saw e buyer and wanted to ask if any one has had any problems with deliverys from them? there service seems to leave a lot to be desired as of late. There are quite a lot of people around having problems with ebuyer at the mo. unlike aria.co.uk super fast delivery i ordered the parts for a complete pc at 6pm and they all arrived at 11 am the next morning, well impressed prices are very reasonable as well

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Doofy

Just jumping in hope no one minds? just saw e buyer and wanted to ask if any one has had any problems with deliverys from them? there service seems to leave a lot to be desired as of late. There are quite a lot of people around having problems with ebuyer at the mo. unlike aria.co.uk super fast delivery i ordered the parts for a complete pc at 6pm and they all arrived at 11 am the next morning, well impressed prices are very reasonable as well

Just wait for Bifta to respond

I've had problems with them in the past, where they sent me the wrong Mobo twice in a row. They're awful to deal with when things go wrong.