New PC

[Matthew]

It's not a problem if I need the drivers, can soon sort that.

I will take a look at Scan but would prefer eBuyer, used they many a time and never had a problem. It doesn't have to be the best system in the world, its not me using it, its a dam sight better than the one they are using at the minute.

[dragon]

Originally Posted by Matthew

It's not a problem if I need the drivers, can soon sort that.

I will take a look at Scan but would prefer eBuyer, used they many a time and never had a problem. It doesn't have to be the best system in the world, its not me using it, its a dam sight better than the one they are using at the minute.

Scan are brilliant IMO everything i've ever ordered from them has always come very promptly, and they email you at every stage of the order so you know exactly what's going on.

[Matthew]

Thanks for that dragon, I may look at them in the future but at the minute I'm sticking with eBuyer, I know where I am then.

Does anyone see any problems with the final system I put up?

crap psu

[Matthew]

Apart from the PSU is everything ok then?

[ronald146m]

Hi
You may need to order a ribbon cable for the DVD-RW and a SATA cable for the hard drive - unless you already have some.
Those drives are OEM devices so they probably come with no fittings and fixtures.

they will supply one of each with the motherboard

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Originally Posted by Matthew

Apart from the PSU is everything ok then?

yeppers

[ronald146m]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

they will supply one of each with the motherboard

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[Alien]

Originally Posted by lsproc

Not if your using XP. Unless the SATA device is ancient, you will need a SATA drive to feed in during setup bootstrap, cause XPs hardware detection sucks (hopefully it will be better by SP3).

Didn't need a driver disk during setup for my Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA; not with XP SP2, & not with XP x64 edition either.

Matthew: As for the RAM, why not get some DDR2 800 instead of DDR2 667? It's pretty cheap these days. I looked to see if Ebuyer did the same stuff that Zingle, Dilli, myself, & probably plenty of others have, but they don't seem to stock any Geil memory at all.

Hmm, weird, Scan haven't got any either. OcUK has though.

[Matthew]

So would this memory work? Also is this PSU any good?

Memory isn't my strong point any more.

yes to the ram and the psu still blows. You will need to point this out to the customer as a none warrenty option as obviously budget is tight it could last for years or it could blow tomorrow

[Alien]

Originally Posted by Matthew

So would this memory work?

Would it work? Yes. Do I think it's your best bet from what Ebuyer has available? No. With memory you have 2 lots of numbers that are important, frequency [e.g. 800Mhz] & timings [e.g. 4-4-4-12]. With frequency, higher is better; with timings, lower is better [the most significant 1 being CAS]. The RAM you picked is CAS 5, & also just 1 GB stick, so you'd want 2, which would be £54. For an extra quid you could get a 2GB matched pair kit of OCZ that's CAS 4

Originally Posted by Matthew

Also is this PSU any good?

Zingle's not kidding, that really blows. The 2 cheapest ones I'd consider viable options on there are this Seasonic, & this Antec.

[Matthew]

Right I am not after anything fancy as I have stated before. This needs to be built at cheap as possible and as long as everything works I am happy and so will my friend when they get a free upgrade to what PC they have,

well the psu could go bang remember that

[dragon]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

well the psu could go bang remember that

Taking out everything that's connected to it as it surges in the process.

Worst case scenario but It does happen, the motherboard/cpu tend to be most vulnerable.

Admittedly I probably have a cheap PSU in this machine but its a Dell so as far as i'm concerned its their problem if it goes pop