Need advice

[fozzie22]

Hi guys..hope i've posted this in the right forum..

Well here goes,i'm about to dip my toe into the murky depths of building my own PC,and with about 2 grand to spend i was wondering what you would suggest spending the money on,AND more importantly where to spend it.

I've never bought anything PC related from the web,so i would like a few suggestions as to good stores to buy from,(hence why i posted it in here ).

Any buying advice would be welcome.

I'm looking to go down the AMD/PCIe route so go crazy post a few ideas for me and i would be most grateful.

 

[muckshifter]

Hello Fozzie ... welcome to PCR

Well, for a £1000 one can build a pretty dam good system, then the other £1000 could be spent on a 42" Plasma inc 2year OSW and speakers (actually its £995 inc VAT)

As to what to buy and where ... I'll leave that to our residents who will just love to spend your money.

I will make one suggestion ... as you have an excess, in money that is, find a supplier of recommendation and get the whole kit from them. It really will make sense to go that route.

 

[psd99]

well there are so many retailer out there now!
too much competition!

Nowadays I shop with www.kotech.co.uk
I have found that they do price matching and can beat any online price should u ring them!

but in the past I used to deal with
www.overclockers.co.uk i found these ppl fast to get the goods out but very expensive
also i found their customer service is very poor..


www.overclock.co.uk i found these very good to deal with but once again they are expensive


www.dabs.com
when u want RANGE of items this is your place, ive ordred a couple of times from them very impressed.


www.ebuyer.com
what do they say?
pay for peanuts? GET PEANUTS! lol

welll they are v cheap but kotech laughs at them nowadays
i dont like the delivery waiting of ebuyer.


well hope this heads u into the correct direction!

 

[muckshifter]

I know what my next system will use ...

As you have plenty of 'dosh', have peak at This 'Hardware Confusion' Article ... well written and will offer some more guidance to what to look for.

 

[Me__2001]

ooh 2K, if only i had that kind of money, if i did my system would be along the lines of this

A8N-SLI

AMD-FX55

1GB Geil Ultra Platinum PC4400

2X 74GB Western Digital Raptors

2X XFX 6600GT Extreme edition

Sony DRU-800A DVD-RW

floppy drive

Thermaltake Dream Tower

Tagan 530W PSU

Iiyama ProLite 19" E481S-B LCD

thats about £1875

plus a keyboard and mouse and a copy of windows XP

 

[floppybootstomp]

It’s quite easy to spend a couple of grand, here’s suggestion for the tower unit only, assuming you don’t mind silver.

You will need a floppy drive to load the RAID/SATA drivers.


And you’ll need to add a monitor; mouse; keyboard; loudspeaker system and maybe a printer.


These are only suggestions, you could easily spend more, or spend less, but imo this would make a fine system.


I’ve used just one supplier, but shop around, you will do better.


Total price is: £1368.97 plus postage


DFI LanParty NF4 SLI-DR (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard £140.94


AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3700BNBOX) £246.69


Zalman CNPS7700-CU Ultra-Quiet CPU Cooler – Retail £35.15

2 x Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM SATA 8MB Cache, in RAID 0 £256.04


Samsung SpinPoint P SP1614C 160GB SATA 8MB Cache £65.74


Corsair 1GB DDR XMS4400C25PT TwinX (2x512MB) CAS2.5 (TWINX1024-4400C25PT) £146.82


BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC 256MB DDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (BFGR68256GTOCX) £276.07


Lian-Li PC-60 Silver Aluminium Midi-Tower Case (No PSU) £82.19


Tagan TG480-U22 480W ATX2.01 2Force SLi Compliant Silent PSU £64.57


NEC ND3540 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Silver) £34.43


Sony DDU1613 DVD-ROM (Silver) £14.69


OcUK Value Floppy Drive – Silver £7.64

 

[Me__2001]

flopps that is one heavy cooler, according to the Zalman site 918g , is that safe ?

 

[floppybootstomp]

flopps that is one heavy cooler, according to the Zalman site 918g , is that safe ?

I've been following a sckt 939 build at another forum recently, and the guy used a Zalman, that one, with an Asus board.

According to him it's secure, huge, efficient and quiet.

 

[floppybootstomp]

Here's a link to the thread, it has some good pix. Link

I'm not sure if you need to be a member of that forum to access the thread, but that's the one.

 

[muckshifter]

I like This one

 

[floppybootstomp]

Just out of interest, I finished this system off, with best mouse, top of the range loudspeaker system and a silver 19" TFT Monitor with 8ms response time. The keyboard is corded.

All from same supplier:
Logitech MX1000 Laser Cordless Mouse - 46.94
Logitech Media Keyboard - Retail - 15.86
Logitech Z-680 THX® Certified 5.1 450 Watts Speakers - 234.94
Iiyama ProLite E481S-S 19" LCD Monitor - 281.94

Total price for whole system: £1948.65

 

[floppybootstomp]

I like This one

Aye, the XP-90 is a superb heatsink, but I'm quite intrigued with the Zalman, it looks good

 

[fozzie22]

Cheers chaps,lots of things to mull over feel free to post anyother specs

One thing though,those heat sinks do look a little like lawn mower engines