Hey,

Well as you may know i have my dell inspiron 9400 and now want to get a desktop, i looked at dell and i can get:-

- AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual core processor 3600+
- Vista Home Premium
- 20" flat panel Moniter
- 2048MB of RAM*  (they give me the choice to have either four 512MB cards or two 1024MB cards...whcih is better?)
- 320GB (7200RPM) HDD
- Integrated nVidia GeForce 6150 LE graphics
- 16 X DVD +/- RW Drive
- multi-media keyboard and premium mouse
- Creative Inspire T7900 7.1 Speaker System

That is in the Dell C521

£544.07

BUT i do not like dell so i have decided to build my own

this is what i was thinking

case £85

Mobo £45  Asus m2n-mx

CPU (not sure!) AMD (budget = £40 - £65)

RAM £50 (DDR2 800)

Hard drive £55  320GB ATA 2

Tv tuner £30

Optical drive(s)  ~£20 per drive (one DVD RW and one lightscribe)

Standard CPU cooler £15

PSU 400w £13

Mointer to be decided, hoping dual screen ( i will be willing to change Mobo for one with dvi and vgd support if that one does not)

OS vista home premuim £80 OEM

Total £463 (not including monitor(s))

so what would anyone reccomend me change or ect...

hopeing to build it in Summer holidays ( june 28 - ~ August 27)





Thanks Everyone

P.Toye

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Originally posted by Phillip
2x1gb of ram is better because you will be able to upgrade later on oif you wanted to get another stick.

And Dell computers are overpriced paperweights. You could go into any computer store (Not like Harvey Norman etc..) and ask for a System for £600 and it would be better. Not trying to be mean but people see the big screen and the 320gb hdd with 2gb!! of ram and think woah, when in fact its just some cheap generic ram.

So before you go ordering from Dell, have a look around at the local computer stores. If you find anything you like post it here =]

Also I hope you don't plan on playing any games with that PC =p

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