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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.
 
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. :D

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.

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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!
 
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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





 
flopps that is one heavy cooler, according to the Zalman site 918g :eek:, is that safe ?
 
Me__2001 said:
flopps that is one heavy cooler, according to the Zalman site 918g :eek:, is that safe ?
Click to expand...

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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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 :)
 
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