Novice Building a PC
 

Im looking into building myself a new PC aas mine is getting a little too slow. I already have a few components I wish to slavage from my existing pc namely. The CDRW, sound card and graphics card. I am looking to spend about £400 ish I was looking at this sort of spec
Case with min 3 drive bays
AMD 2800
512Mb ram
120Gb HD
6 No USB ports
DVD RW

My main question is do I choose AMD or Intel. Which gives the fastest speed for the cash?
Anyone reccomend a motherboard to install?

And lastly a good online retailer for parts.

Cheers

If your going down the component route - you should be able to get 64bit athlon 3200+ - motherboard a gig of 400ddr ram, Good 500w + case, 200 gig hard drive easy with money left.


If you search scoobynet you will see I did a full machine for £450 inc a ati 9600 XT, 8 X LG DVD Writer etc.

Hi lightning101

Ive done a search but cant find the exact spec. Any chance you can point me in the right direction. Also where do you buy your components from?

Since I've been building PC's I've always gone for AMD chips, why? hmm, not sure, they always just seemed better than the equivelent intel chip.

if you can afford it go p4, if price is on the front AMD will be cheaper

look at www.overclockers.co.uk

I always use

Gigabyte motherboards - never had an issue, have a decent power supply

my setup at moment is

p4 2.4 533fsb
1gig pc2700
pioneer dvdrw
pioneer dvd
80gig 8mb cache hdd
powercolor 9800np clocked at pro speeds

jase

I would also recommend the AMD 64 route, excellent performance per pound.

I just got an AMD64 3200 with a ASUS K8V deluxe motherboard (brilliant m/b by the way). Fitted with 1G DDR400 ram and a 9800pro its an absolute flying machine, runs Far Cry maxxed out no probs.

Look on ebuyer, get the oem versions and save a fortune, the AMD64 is not far of the P4 3200 extreme edition for speed but less than £200.

Rich

AMD Athlon 64 FX51 is the way to go, quicker than an Intel P4 EE, the only downside is that you need to run registered ram with it