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I was looking at what sort of price I would get with a custom build PC, and it seems pretty, cool, however, I want to know you views, just incase I put something I should have in, or picked a motherboard that doesn't suit the case or whatever.




From;
www.aria.co.uk



OS- Windows XP Pro SP2 OEM - £79.97 -
3 1/2 floppy drive - £4.50
GFX - GeCube Radeon X1330 PRO 512mb PCI-E £76.95
AOpen- 52x52x32 CDRW Retail £14.00
Sony 16x DVD Rom £10.75
200gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 8mb £54.30
Kingston 2GB Kit (2x 1gb) PC3200 DDR £102.01
4in1 MIDI Tower, Keyboard, Mouse(3D ball), Speaker, USB Audio, 350w PSU,
Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE s775, Intel 925, PCI-E, SATA Raid, 1066FSB, Gb LAN, 7.1chAudio, Firewire (Mobo) £72.50
Intel Pentium 4 630 [3.0ghz, OEM, s775, 2MB] with HT technology £45.00
(Prices I didn't post are warranty and labour costs
Total £614.18 excluding VAT
Total £712.66 including VAT

To get more info on parts I've picked, unfortunately direct links are java script commands, so just go into aria's custom build part and find the products listed.

From the sounds of things I'll have twice the processing speed (plus HT) quadruple the ram, double the VRam, plus a faster GFX card, and 5 times the HD space, so I'd better get saving

swap your dvd rom for a burner, the small extra increase in cost will pay for itself in back up insurance.

You might want to up you PSU to at least a 400 watt. And this is just personal preference, but I would go with an AMD CPU instead of an Intel.

Fair enough, I'll chance those, as for the PSU it comes in the case bundle, I'll try to find another for 400 watts

[edit]
Here is the improved system, this time I'll give more detials.

AMD Athlon 64 3200 Venice OEM £84;
Clock speed; 2000mhz
Cpu speed; 3200 mhz
Level 1 cache : 128kb
Level 2 cache ; 512kb
Type : Socket 939

Motherboard - Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe nForce 4 SLi
AGP - No
Audio - Real tek ALC850, 8 channel CODEC
BIOS type - 4mb Flash ROM, AWARD BIOS, PnP, DMI 2.0, WfM 2.0, SM BIOS 2.3
Chipset - NVidia nForce 4 SLI
CPU's upto -FX55
Dimensions - 30.5cm 24.5cm ATX
Features - AMD 64 architecture, simultaneous 32bit and 64 bit computing
Firewire - 1 x IEEE 1394 connector (internal)
Hardware monitering - Yes
IDE Ports - 2xUltra DMA 133/100/66/33
LAN - On board gigabit LAN
Max memory 4gb
Memory slots - 4
No. of PCI Express x1 slots - 2
No. of PCI Express x16 slots - 2
No. of SATA ports - 4

Fan-
Coolermaster Hyper48; Sockets - 478, 757, 940, 939/LGA 775
Bearing type - Ball bearing
Connector - 4pin(PWM)/ 3pin
Fan life expectancy - 80,000 hours
Fan Size - 92x92x25mm
Fan Speed - 1400rpm
Heatsink dimension - 105x94x70mm
Noise level - 18.5 dB
Rated voltage - 12v
Thermal resitance - Rja 0.36 C/W
Weight - 864g

Case -
4 in 1 midi tower with keyboard, 3D ball mouse, speakers,
Dimensions - 180mm(w), 440mm(d) x 420mm(H)
External 3.5 bays- 2
Externa; 5.25 bays - 4
Fans - Fan set - Front 8m x 2, Rear 8cm x 2, Side 8cm x 1(With air duct)
Form Factor- ATX form factor, 9.6" x 12" or smaller
Front i/o - USB 2.0 and audio ports
Internal bays 3.5 - 4
Mobo - ATX form factor 9.6" x 12" or smaller
PSU - Winpower 450W PSU
Slot - Standard ATX 7 slots

Kingston 2GB (2x 1gb) PC3200 DDR

200GB seagate Barracuda 7200.9 8mb

Lite-on USB2.0 16x Dual layer Black DVDRW

Club 3D GeForce 6600 256mb PCI-E
300 mhz core clock speed
DX 9.0 support
Interface type - PCI E x16
Maximum monitors- 2
Memory interface - 128bit DDR
On board memory speed - 480 (240mhz x 2)

Sound- Creative Audigy 2 ZS OEM

3/12 black floppy

Windows XP Pro 64bit edition


Total - £817

Hope that all fits together nicely