new hardware for my pc

[mikeco]

im after some new parts for pc (motherboard, hard drive, ram, cpu and psu)

heres what i have come up with:


hard drive:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=94403
(250gb hard drive SATA 2 300MB/s transfer rate 16 MB cache)


mother board:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=18240460420&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=102900
(1x SATA2, 2x SATA)


RAM:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=18249937181&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=65719
(PC 3200 400mhz 1GB stick)


PSU:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=98566
(seems nice has every thing needed '8x 4pin, 2x sata, 2x floppy 1x20+4 MOBO power 24 or 20 MOBO, 1x 6pin PCI-E, 1x4 pin 12v MOBO' 480W holey style cover with a big 120mm fan on it)


CPU:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=18240648090&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=88105
(looks good overclocking it to 2.5ghz is something to keep in mind if needed)


will get a graphics card later on, as the motherboard supports AGP and PCI-E



total: £284

what u think?

[chojin]

Go for the Samsung Spinpoint P120 HDD's, I have 2 and they are fast and very quiet

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=247245

[Seedler]

Go for the Samsung Spinpoint P120 HDD's, I have 2 and they are fast and very quiet

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=247245

Only 8 MB cache tho the samsung has.

[clocker]

Forget the motherboard.
Having both AGP and PCIe is like tits on a boar.

Find a nF4 chipset board instead and pair it with RAM sporting a CAS of two instead of three, even if you can only start with a 512mb stick.

[mikeco]

well i dont have a PCI-E card and i plan 2 get 1 in june but for now ill use the AGP card i got now, i dont see whats wrong with AGP and PCI-E :P

ill search for another motherboard as thats out of stock, whats 'RAM sporting a CAS of two instead of three'?

[lynx]

Even more important than getting CL2 memory: get a matched pair of 512MB dimms rather than a single 1GB dimm so your system can operate in dual-channel mode.

2x512MB, CL2 (http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?product_uid=52471)
A little more than you were originally going to spend, but the difference in performance will be well worth it.

2x512MB, CL3 (http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?product_uid=49296)
Nearer your original budget and only CL3, but still far better than your original choice.

[clocker]

well i dont have a PCI-E card and i plan 2 get 1 in june but for now ill use the AGP card i got now, i dont see whats wrong with AGP and PCI-E :P

Why not just wait till June and get everything at once?

[mikeco]

iv desided to scrap the idea of getting a agp + pci-e board and just get a pci-e card now while im at it, i have spent a while checking out the boards and found this nice 1:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=18288930353&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=102598

also think ill just stick with this ram as well:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=54472

i have no clue which nvidia graphics card to get, i cant tell the difference from some of them, im guessing a 6800 or a 6600 something around £80-90 (inc vat)

could u guys help me pick out a pci-e nvidia card?

i found these 2 cards:
http://ebuyer.co.uk/customer/products/index.html?rb=18307680200&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=105118

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=81343

i like the 1st 1 alot and its also good what u think?