Building a computer
 

I dont have a clue what goes what or what works with what etc...

i got £600 and want to BUILD a computer...

it must be fast, and must have 2gb ram and good graphics card.

Can any of you work out a system for me and list components/where to buy them etc?

please list what you don't need, e.g. monitor? keyboard? mouse? case?

I dont need monitor/mouse/keyboard/speakers/webcam, but need everything else (the main unit + case)

Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3200C2PT TwinX (2x1GB) CAS2 (MY-079-CS)
£184.95

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3500BPBOX) (CP-119-AM)
£134.95

Abit AN8 Ultra nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-074-AB)
£74.95

Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 160GB 1600JS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-047-WD)
£50.05

Antec NeoPower 480W ATX2.0 PSU (CA-022-AN)
£69.95

Antec SLK3000B Midi Tower Case - No PSU (CA-027-AN)
£28.95

LG GSA-4163BA 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-028-LG) (will write cd's also.. they just dont say that)
£26.90

Sapphire ATI Radeon X800 GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-092-SP)
£93.95

Found it all at overclockers.co.uk

Will be a little more then £600.. but if you want to save a little more (~£750) and go for a AMD 4000+ that would be a far better cpu.

what sorta games could i play with a system like that? would i get lag etc from bf2?

No you wont get much if any lag in almost any game on the market at the moment. That could change tomrrow though.. I do reccomend if you want a power pc go for at least a 4000+ and x850XT graphics. Will make the total around £800 or so but you'll pretty much have what I have and i get no lag what-so-ever :)

hard drive
 

can you tell me if this is a good hard drive its a Seagate

• 200gb
• 8.5ms seek time
• 8mb buffer
• 7200 rpm

price 39.99 at frys electronics
www.outpost.com

I never had a problem with Seagate. I have owned 2 in the past. The only ones I ever had problems with were Maxtor, they seem to get loud after awhile. I have 2 WesternDigital now and they run great, never tried anything other then thoes 3 brands.

Thx panther, im building a new computer for around a $1000 but dont know much about specs, just how to operate them, anyways thx for the help

Hehe I have had the opposite. With my company WD harddrives go out a lot more than Maxtors.

I've never had a hard drive fail me.. I have a 10gb maxtor that is about 5 years old and it still runs, it's just loud as hell/

:D might wanna back that data up P :p

worst drivers ever: fujitsu, i dunno the exact ammount but they made a hundred thousand drives that were defective, our company has to replace these all the time.

the seagate drives that have the black rubber/plastic jacket on are bad also.

and the slimline maxtor drives should be avoided to :)


personally ive been ok with HDD's, i have a 4 year old maxtor that is a bit noisy, but i have no room for it on my system anyway :)

currently using:

200 GB Maxtor SATA
74 GB WD Raptor (10k rpm :p ) SATA
20GB WD ATA
20GB Maxtor ATA
120GB Maxtor ATA
120GB Maxtor ATA

lol damn for a computer like that you gatta drop like 2000 or more american ...

just some suggestions .. i'd get a western digital 7200 rpm harddrive ..

socket 939 on motherboards .. and a AMD cpu .. the one panther posted is good ..

for the video card look at what slot it takes .. make sure if its APG u get a mother board for that and if it's PCI express get a motherboard for that ...i think the best pci express card is by nvidia..

and at least a 400 watt antec (there good brand) power supply

2 gigs of ram should be good ..even though that FEAR game has likea recommended requirment of that much lol

I only paid around $1,300 USD for mine.. The price of my cpu has dropped like $150 bucks since then (only about 2 months). But the ram I got (in sig) went up 75 bucks 2 days after I got it!

I have a seagate with the rubber jacket, I used it for 2 years and then put it in a computer that I built. No problems at all with it, dosen't make any noise. Hitachi are supposed to be some nice drives too although I have never used one.