how does this sound ppl. thanks darkmatter for the help.




Product Price
Asus P4C800 Deluxe Skt478 8xAGP
DDR400 Serial ATA, USB 2.0 and
Firewire Hyper-threading £101.07
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JNC 8676 300W ATX Case With Side
Window FrontFirewire/Usb/Audio £9.99
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Intel Pentium 4 3E GHZ
Prescott 800FSB 1mg Cache OEM CPU £154.99
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Sapphire Radeon 9600PRO 256MB
DDR 8x AGP TV-Out DVI-I Retail
Box £84.86
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Liteon 52x32x52x IDE DRIVE - £19.97
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Western Digital Caviar 120Gb
7200rpm EIDE Hard Drive £48.92
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Kingston 512 ECC DDR400
PC3200 Cl3 Dimm £72.66
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CTX EX700F Plus 17ins Pure
Flat 0.25 72KHz Tco99 Black &
Silver £72.49
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Thermaltake Xaser III Silver and
Red Keyboard And Optical Mouse Set £18.00
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High Quality Round IDE Cable
ATA100 60cm in Blue £1.81
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Liteon 8x DVD DUAL R/RW
IDE Retail Box £55.99
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Total: £640.75

Shipping Band:£5.99

Approx Cart Weight: 35.82Kg
Shipping Surcharge:£4.80

SubTotal: £651.54
VAT: £114.07
Total: £765.61

That's $1421.30 US Dollars ($1862.04 Cdn.)

You're getting a nice cpu all right. The vid card you've selected seems to be newer to the 9700 Pro that I have. I assume its a better card? I wonder if you could settle for an 80 gig drive, and a CRT monitor, and use the money saved to buy another 512 of RAM? Would that be a good idea?

I have: 2.5 gig cpu, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro with 128 mb video ram, and 1 gig of RAM, and an 80 gig hdd with tons of room left on it.

I have everything cranked up full blast in UT 2004, video and sound. The game runs great! :D

I would try to do it for under $600. Keep your old equipment like your:

Monitor
Keyboard
Mouse
Floppy
CD-ROM
Sound Card
CD Burner
DVD Player
Printer
Speakers
Video Cam
Joystick
Scanner
Hardrive

Now go out and buy:

Totally Sweet Modern Motherboard ($130)
Nice Cool Case with 300+ Watt Power Supply ($80)
Processor AMD 3.2Ghz 400 FSB ($210)
DDR RAM 500MB ($150)
Video Card ATI 9600 Pro ($145)

OK, well that equals $715. Still it is less than half of what you found and I priced better ram and a better processor and a better motherboard. Just upgrade the rest of the top list as it breaks.

Thank you! Thank you very much!!!

im just looking at parts at the moment but i have to get a compleate rig cos i have a laptop at the moment so i cant cut on stuff . the monitor is a crt namless

Bummer!

herm what is the case you suggested $80 sounds alot as the one i saw was only £10 -- $18 us

i know im cheap just wondered what it was

An $18 case is a little bland.. and probably UGLY.
For $55 US, you can have a cool looking case like THIS ONE

For $46, THIS ONE

Check out New Egg.com and all of the links at the bottom of the page for cool cases, and good prices. Here is the link. http://www.newegg.com/app/manufact.asp?catalog=7&DEPA=1
If you want a really gaudy computer, look at this link.
http://www.crazypc.com/products/cases/crazypccases.htm

I didn't have one in mind at all. I took the price of the 300 watt case I use that does eveything I need that cost me $40 and I doubled that cost figuring that should by an awesome case.

The case does look close to that one minus the leds

THIS ONE

but theres a few different ones to choose so thats easy
LIKE THESE

Dark :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Not bad prices, DM. Good site :D

Dammit, you guys are making me want to have a go at building my own computer, and I don't even need one yet! :? :lol:

I wouldn't have a clue about building a computer . Most of you can build your own computer . I am lucky that I do not put the wires in the wrong place . Which I have done before the sound wires. I put the wires in input to instead of output (or is it the other way around). I watched show they were putting a computer together from scratch .I wish I could build a computer it doesn't look so hard to do .but knowing me it will be hard . At least I know the difference from regular screwdriver from Phillips had screwdriver .