All bad ideas I'm afraid. Golden rules of building a PC: No cheap Power supplies No CPU/Motherboard bundles Don't buy your components from Maplin, they're too expensive. The PSU's not even the right size anyway. Instead, get: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=359344 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=632059 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=605526 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=644038 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=402849 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=770343 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=533395 A faster CPU, a better case (trust me, even if it doesn't look it, it's much better made and will cool better, especially with the extra case fan), a much better motherboard, a much better Power supply (the other one was not only the wrong size but very poorly made), much better quality RAM and it actually has a good graphics card. You omitted one entirely. All that lot delivered will be about £330.
Pfff... See, its easy when you know what the story is and what to look for. (If you want me to wire your house for electrics and multimedia gimme ashout...) but as for the hardware in a PC... knock me down to below noob status... Reason i omitted the graphics card is beacuse i dont do much PC gaming, apart from abit of N64 emulation, but on the other hand if i want to run Vista am gonna need it... Think you had to step in there before i made a balls of it. Wanna thank you and the rest of the guys for takin the time to put up with my nonsense. THANKS A MILLION. I,ll now go and gather info on how to set this all up, give ya,s abreak from constant badgering!
OK, that tells me you don't need a powerful graphics card, but you'll still need one to be able to see anything! Cheap nasty motherboards come with integrated graphics, but the ones that are any good don't, and that's because integrated graphics is strictly limited to Standard definition video and normal office use. HD video and/or games and you need a proper graphics card of at least some degree. You can go cheaper than the 2600XT, but because cheaper cards are so much weaker, I'd stick with that card because it's cost effective. Pay 40% more, get twice the performance, if you see what I mean.
I personally would stick with XP because I (and indeed most people) prefer it, but I'm not stopping you.
Well on seeing the price, think i,ll stick with XP for now. If i was going for Vista in the future, which version 32bit or 64bit?
i think the vista 32bit would be the best bet. if you have like more than 4gb, then 64bit, but otherwise get the 32 bit.
64-bit does allow the use of more than 4GB of RAM, but since I've still yet to find anything that uses more than 2.7GB of my RAM, I don't think that'll be necessary for quite some time, and 64-bit Vista often causes driver issues. Stick with 32-bit unless you have to have a 64-bit OS.
No, it's not being used with a heatsink, it's an extra case fan, the coolermaster case only comes with one, but has space for 2.
@Sam, the motherboard you suggested doesnt support SLI or crossfire, will i then have trouble with the graphics card? Do i really need that card as i am not a PC Gamer?
Well Sam my stuff came today except PSU and RAM, cant wait to get started! One thing though, no heat tape or grease? came with the processor, is it vital that i apply this?
The CPU cooler comes with the thermal paste already applied on the bottom of the heatsink, and that's all you need unless you're going with an aftermarket cooler.
