Fantasy £400 Pc

Note: Change to IDE drives. Those boards don't support SATA.

Also get the retail verion of the CPU. Lowers the cost of buying a separate cooler and has a way better warranty.

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Sea...003BC&CatId=259

Intel P4-3.2G(800) $809

ASUS P4P800S Mainboard
256M DDR400 Memory
ATI R7000 64M Video Card (OEM)
80G / 7200rpm Hard Drive
1.44 Floppy Drive
ATX Case
48X CDRW & DVD Combo Drive
56K MODEM
On board Sound / Lan / USB
Altec Lansing Speaker
PS/2 Keyboard PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Scroll Mouse

no op system and it could use a better gfx card but still. and of course its in CDN dollars.

@ROSSCO_2004, there is not a big speed difference, if any, between SATA and IDE drives. The drives read/write speed isn't fast enough to need higher than 100 Mb/s bandwidth.

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Virtualbody1234@19 March 2004 - 14:39
@ROSSCO_2004, there is not a big speed difference, if any, between SATA and IDE drives. The drives read/write speed isn't fast enough to need higher than 100 Mb/s bandwidth.

---

okay, i changed it, but im not putting in the dvd burner, and i havent added it up becuase ive edited to many times and i keep having to calculate, do it again becuase i screwed it up, do it one last time to make sure, then go to a currrency website, then add it all into the post and im geting lazy :lol:

Quote:

---

Originally posted by TheCanuk@19 March 2004 - 14:35
Intel P4-3.2G(800) $809

ASUS P4P800S Mainboard
256M DDR400 Memory
ATI R7000 64M Video Card (OEM)
80G / 7200rpm Hard Drive
1.44 Floppy Drive
ATX Case
48X CDRW & DVD Combo Drive
56K MODEM
On board Sound / Lan / USB
Altec Lansing Speaker
PS/2 Keyboard PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Scroll Mouse

no op system and it could use a better gfx card but still. and of course its in CDN dollars.

---

56k modem??? :lol: :lol:

DVD burner: $119.99

is less then your 2 optical drives.

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Sea...0-3004&CatId=89




Also the price for the mobo is still wrong.

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Virtualbody1234@19 March 2004 - 14:45
DVD burner: $119.99

is less then your 2 optical drives.

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Sea...0-3004&CatId=89




Also the price for the mobo is still wrong.

---

is HiVal a good brand? i dont like cheap companies, i've learnt the hard way with my current computer...

i found iomagic to be good. very satisfied, especially since i forcefully unlocked 8x on my 4x burner :)


lol i found out that it was possible after i put a fucked cd into my burner and it spun to 96x (cd speed) according to nero (i was trying to image a cd)


:lol:

You could also compromise a bit with the RAM to fit into the budget.

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Sea...4900&CatId=1043

Could also get a case with power supply included for less.

decent setup:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/in...oduct_uid=58894

upgraded from the setup above:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/in...oduct_uid=58894

even more upgraded from above:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/in...oduct_uid=58929

the website i got this info from was :
www.ebuyer.co.uk

as most of you are from america they have a url for you:
www.ebuyer.com