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Okay its 3 years since my last new computer. 6 years for my son's so the plan is to buy 2. I was hoping to get it cheaper than £750 a pop.

Any suggestions for the following welcomed as I do not keep up with current trends.

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™2 Duo E8400 (2 X 3.00GHz) 1333MHz FSB/6MB L2 Cache

Memory (RAM)
2GB CORSAIR DDR2 667MHz - (2x1GB)

Motherboard
ASUS® P5N-MX: DDR2, S-ATA II, 1 x PCI-E x16, 2 PCI,

Operating System
Windows XP™ Professional + SP3, CD & Licence

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS (4 REAR + 2 FRONT) AS STANDARD

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
500GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm)

2nd Hard Disk
NONE

RAID (HDD 1 & 2)
NONE

1st CD/DVD Drive
20x Dual Layer LightScribe DVD Writer ±R/±RW/RAM

2nd CD/DVD Drive
16x DVD-ROM & 52x CD-ROM Drive

Graphics Card
512MB GEFORCE 8600GT PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT

2nd Graphics Card
NONE

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Modem
NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND

Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100 LAN PORT

Floppy Disk Drive
NONE

Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc)

Case
Stylish Black/Silver Trident case + 2 front USB

Power Supply & Case Cooling
600W Quiet Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)

Processor Cooling
ASUS SILENT KNIGHT II PURE COPPER ULTRA COOLER (£36)

Monitor
19 Inch Wide TFT Silver/Black 1440 x 900 5MS, D-Sub, DVI, Audio (£99)

2nd Monitor
NONE

DVI Cable
1 x 2 Metre DVI Cable (£5)


Office Software
Microsoft® Office® 2007 Home & Student (1 Licence) (£69)

£643.40 ex VAT.
£756 inc VAT and Delivery for each.
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Or if I went AMD £650

Processor (CPU)
AMD ATHLON™ 64 X2 6000+ (3.0GHz) 2 x 1MB L2 Cache (Socket AM2)

Memory (RAM)
2GB CORSAIR XMS2 800MHz - LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x1GB)

Motherboard
ASUS® M2A-VM: DUAL DDR2, SATA II, x16 VGA, 2 x PCI

Operating System
Genuine Windows XP™ Professional + SP3, CD & Licence (£95)

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS (4 REAR + 2 FRONT) AS STANDARD

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
500GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm)

2nd Hard Disk
NONE

RAID (HDD 1 & 2)
NONE

1st CD/DVD Drive
20x Dual Layer LightScribe DVD Writer ±R/±RW/RAM

2nd CD/DVD Drive
16x DVD-ROM & 52x CD-ROM Drive

Graphics Card
512MB GEFORCE 8600GT PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT

2nd Graphics Card
NONE

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Modem
NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND

Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT

Floppy Disk Drive
NONE

Memory Card Reader
NONE

Case
Stylish Black/Silver Trident case + 2 front USB

Power Supply & Case Cooling
600W Quiet Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)

Processor Cooling
ASUS SILENT KNIGHT II PURE COPPER ULTRA COOLER (£36)

Firewire & Video Editing
NONE

TV Card
NONE

Monitor
19 Inch Wide TFT Silver/Black 1440 x 900 5MS, D-Sub, DVI, Audio (£99)

2nd Monitor
NONE

DVI Cable
1 x 2 Metre DVI Cable (£5)

£555.74 ex VAT.
£653 inc VAT and Delivery.
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I would bump the V card up to a 8800 512mb
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Get the Seagate 640GB drives... theyre quite a bit faster, and very quiet


and get the Intel [Wink]
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with the intel I was slightly concenred with the mobo. It seems its been around a while and doesn't have 1GB network
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Gonna be tough without hard drives! [Big Grin]
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Steve 500Gb HD in those lists!
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you could try for the Asus P5K SE motherboard, its the 1 i use, and has an intel P35 chipset, and gigabit lan.. little more expensive, but a great board [Smile]
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We bought my son's today
HD is a bit on the small side and PSU probably to low but I think the RAM and Vid Card make up for it. Can always add another HD later.

SYS-150505 Eclipse Evolution i84n98GTX - £703

GigaByte P35-S3G LGA775, DDR2, SATA2, GBLan, 5.1Snd, ATX
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0Ghz LGA775 Processor
4096Mb (2X2048Mb) Dual Channel DDR2 800Mhz Memory
512Mb nVidia GeForce 9800GTX+ PCI-Express VGA Card
20X+/-DVD-R Dual Layer Dvd Writer
320Gb Maxtor DiamondMax21 SATAI/II 8Mb Cache HardDrive
Case With 450W PSU
Hanns-G HG216DP 22In (21.6 Viewable) 5ms Wide TFT Monitor
MicroSoft Windows Vista - Home Premium Edition - oem
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ahh the Gigabyte board is decent, and has the P35 chipset [Smile]
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I am getting SOOOOO far out of the loop for computer building!!
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Technolgy move too damn quickly!

I'm not keen on Vista so might stick to XP.
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Originally posted by Richard:
ahh the Gigabyte board is decent, and has the P35 chipset [Smile]
The gigabyte board had a fault on it! Spent best part of the early hours trying to work out why the new IDE HD I put on as slave wouldn;t work and then the DVD as master stopped working. The BIOS could see neither.

After emails to Gigabyte Support more hours trying to fix it I made a made dash up to Coventry to the vendor. THey tested it and a fault on the IDE connection.

New mobo same make and now I have my music installed on my second hard drive [Smile]

I have also now taking a box completely apart and removed a mobo. So no stopping me now [Big Grin] Time to build me a back up machine.
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Oh and I went with Vista! Not sure I like it but hey can't hang around gathering moss in my head.
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Vista came installed on my last machine. I like it!
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