Hate to say this Red, next time buy one out of the box, there less hassle and throw away. It current crop of good boards/chipsets/graphics cards are all designed for overclockers/gamers. Anything less that SOA is china oem crap and more trouble than they are worth.
The market really has split into three. Commodity and SOA Custom and Ready 2 go, the commodity market is 4 jerks like CUSA etc. The self-build with commodity parts isn't worth it. For the same price you get a Dell/HP or other brand tower ready to go for the same price of the parts with an OS e.t.c.
I just can't be ar*ed these days with build pc's with parts that are nearly a thousand pounds to get a stable system, when the same can be had for half the price ready to go + GPU for just over half the price. Who cares that it doesn't play whatever game across 4 screens and has less latency over the network.
Lets look at the evidence.
Fair/Good PSU - DarkPower/OCZ etc 100 quid
Fair/Good processor - e/q8400 - 130
Fair/Good GPU - ATI 57xx - 150
3-4gb mem - 100 quid
Hard disk - 60 quid
Case - 50 quid
OS legal - 80 quid
BDRom - 80 quid
whoops edit: Mobo 80-130quid good one
Plus Postage + Time + Effort and Disappointment.
Chuck a decent GPU and a BDrom below....its just aint worth the hassle.
* AMD Athlon II X4 630 (2.80GHz, 512kx4, 4C)
* Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
* 4096MB Dual Channel DDR3 1333MHz [4x1024] Memory
* 750GB (7200rpm) SATA Hard Drive
* 16X DVD+/- RW Optical Drive (DVD & CD read and write)
* Integrated ATI Radeon HD4200 Graphics
* 19-in-1 Media Card reader
Price From £429
Job done
