Building a new PC for friends - what do you think?

[Terminat.]

Okay, for around £800, I am building this pc for some friends who want to play games like Halo and Sims 2, and share their broadband connection.

All of it is being bought from www.ebuyer.co.uk. No video card is being included here, since I am selling to them my old 9800 Pro for £100

1 x AMD Athlon XP3000+ 400Mhz FSB 512 L2 Cache Barton Cpu - OEM
1 x Ebuyer 3.5" Internal 7 In 1 USB 2.0 Card Reader Black
1 x Microsoft Windows Xp Home SP2 OEM -Single Pack
1 x Abit NF7 V2.0 nForce2 Socket A 8xAGP DDR400 Memory Retail Box
1 x CTX S761A 17" TFT 16ms 450:1 Multimedia Monitor - Black.
2 x Ebuyer High Quality Round IDE Cable ATA100 60cm in Blue
1 x Ebuyer AC Power Lead (Kettle Type) Suitable for ATX PSU
1 x Belkin ADSL Modem with Built-in 802.11g Wireless Router
2 x Belkin 802.11g Wireless PCI Adapter
1 x Deluxworld 2.0 Silver And Black Speakers
1 x Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 2 (supports Upto) Athlon XP 3200
1 x Samsung 52x32x52x16x Int IDE Combo OEM Black
1 x Sony OEM 3.5 Floppy Drive
1 x Nero Express V6 Burning Software Suite 1 OEM
1 x Ebuyer KC-XP01C Black And Silver ATX Gaming Case No PSU
1 x Microsol Silver Wired Multimedia Keyboard
1 x Ezkey Silver/black 10 Hot Key Button Mouse
1 x Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 120Gb 7200rpm 8mb Cache ATA133
2 x Ebuyer 512mb DDR PC3200 400MHz 184pin Extra Value Ram
1 x High Quality Round floppy Cable 60cm in Yellow

 

[thegreek]

will he be OCing?

 

[Terminat.]

No - there will be no overclocking of any kind. It will all be running at stock speeds

So, what do you think?

 

[Statik]

no nf7 s? is it that much more expensive? if not, go with the nf7 s.

and why home edition?

other than that.. looks alright... if no oc'ing (and no fun then... haha, jk)

 

[Terminat.]

no nf7 s? is it that much more expensive? if not, go with the nf7 s.

NF7-S is not that much more costly, but a SATA disk drive costs another £15-£20 over its IDE counterparts, with very little (if any) performance gain.

and why home edition?

Again, it's a matter of cost. They want to keep the price down as much as possible, and there's little difference between Home and Professional. It's all about the price-to-performance ratio.

if no oc'ing (and no fun then... haha, jk)

Yeah, I agree But, above all, they want a reliable computer - and while they might play a few graphically-demanding games on the pc regularly, it will mostly be used for sharing broadband over another computer and for MS Office.

 

[Statik]

gotcha... well, for price reasons, sounds good then.

i just thought there was more of a reason to get the nf7-s besides sata. i have one and it runs great... although, it's a big oc'ing board... so, nevermind. haha.

but yeah, looks good.