New Build Specs Advice Needed

[psuc41]

Okay after the your advice last time I have been out doing more research and come up with the following

Intel Pentium 4 "Northwood" 3.2GHz (800FSB) with HT Technology - Retail

£199

Asus P4C800 "Canterwood" (Socket 478) Motherboard

£104

TwinMOS 512MB DDR PC3200 CAS2.5 X2 = 1GB

£180

Hightech ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Iceq 128MB TV-Out DVI Twin View Retail Box

£191

Western Digital Caviar 250GB Special Edition 8MB Cache Serial ATA ? OEM

£150

Antec TruePower 480W PSU

£75

Thermaltake V5000a Black Window

£99

Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop Elite English PS2 USB

£60



Cables / Lights

£50

Floppy Drive
£8

Iiyama Prolite E431S 17ins TFT 0.26 80khz Multimedia Black

£320

£1438 with TFT

or above with

GNR CM1997PF 19ins Pure Flat Monitor 0.25dpi 1600x1200

£130

Total £1250

I have got two options go for a 17inch TFT or a 19inch CRT, I would save £200 but I would much rather get a TFT.

Also wondering if a 480w would be enough to power the bloody thing.

Thanks for your advice.

 

[Chaotic42]

I don't know the current exchange rate, but that looks like a good system. I think that 480W should be just fine. Just get a good brand of PSU and you should be set.

 

[PanzerIV]

I'm not an Intel guy nor do I know if those are good prices seeing as they are English pounds, but to answer your question if that Antec TruePower PSU will handle the load, yes it will be quite sufficient.

Edit: While I was working on my response Chaotic beat me to it.

 

[Transistor]

If you have an extra 200 to spend on the TFT, then I would forget the TFT. I would get the 19 inch CRT and then use that extra 200 to buy a NVIDIA 6800.

 

[Markfw]

What are you going to do with this computer ? Unless you encode all day long, an Athlon64 3200 or even a 3000 would be a better solution. I just started using dvdshrink, and it rips an 8 gig DVD in 15 minutes, so I don't care if it took 13 minutes on a P4, but I don't want my games stuttering.

 

[psuc41]

I am in England so I don't think that card will be here for a while. Just read a review in a magazine over here though called Custom PC. The reviewer said he has never been so excited about something in his life.

 

[psuc41]

Also forgot to add a question, is there lots of difference between memory types PC3200 and PC4000?

Cheers

 

[NervousNovice]

If you don't overclock, PC4000 won't be too useful.