my money would go on : CoolerMaster ATC-201 SKX (£170) Abit IT7-MAX2 (£162) Intel Pentium 4 'Northwood' 2.53BGHz (£216) [C1 Stepping] Swiftech MCX4000 (£58) 2 x Corsair 512MB DDR XMS3200 CAS2 (£132) Sapphire ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (£276) Creative Labs Inspire 5.1 5700 (£213) Creative Labs Sound Blaster Extigy (£125) 2 x Western Digital Caviar 120GB Special Edition (£280) Aopen DVDRW 2412 Pro (£256) Pioneer DVD-106S Region Free! (£43) Iiyama AS4332UT BK TFT (£680) Apple Pro Keyboard (£50) Microsoft Explorer Optical Mouse (£36) [new shape] thats £2700 for the other 300 quid you could buy nice accessories , like Silver round IDE cables, nice case fans, Cold cathodes Laser cut grills etc.. i know u decided Athlon XP2800 but a 2.55 C1 when OCed will kick its arse to hell and back.
the day an Intel chip kicks the arse of an AMD chip "to hell and back" is the day pigs sprout wings and fly around in flocks
the day an Intel chip kicks the arse of an AMD chip "to hell and back" is the day pigs sprout wings and fly around in flocks I totaly agree So that's answered the point about the P4, at the moment i'm looking at watercooling (theres some nice screenshots somewhere of a lian li with an aqua tube in that looks quite nice), I was looking at the same RAM and speakers to begin with, I agree with the hdds although i'll probably get 3x80Gb, I'm going to wait for DVD/RW to become more common/needed first, and I was looking at a 21" or 22" monitor. Sorry to have a comment on virtually everything but I do appreciate your help P.S. How the hell do you use the quote function (I'm new to forums)
Click the quote button at the bottom-right of the post which you want to quote from, and delete the bits you don't want to quote. Nope, it's a different connector altogether and is not backward compatible. That said, the software is compatible and OS transparent.
Can I just have peoples thoughts on this monitor please Sony GDM-F520 Or dabs quick links: WT2WS Cheers
One of the best 21" CRT monitors you can buy IMHO I have two of the previous model (F500) at the mo and they are damn good but bloody huge'n'heavy. Cheers, CC