JNC 8676 300W ATX Case With Side Window Front Firewire/Usb/Audio - £15.27inc

[Hangman]

This looks like a bargain to me.

This new addition to the JNC range boasts excellent value for money and looks superb with its Black front, silver body and side window. With 4 5.25" bays and floppy drives, it offers lots of space! In addition, this case has front USB, audio and Firewire (1394). With a 300watt psu, it offers everything required to start your build!


Features
300watt psu
4x 5.25" bay
Front USB
Front Firewire (1394
Please note-this case does not come with a power cord

Here is the LINK

[jackroo]

not bad matey, have some spare parts lying around might try and build me another, Hmmmmm maybe

[harryb]

bloody hell, that is an unbelievable price WITH a PSU

[colh]

bloody hell, that is an unbelievable price WITH a PSU

A 300w just aint powerfull enough. AMD recomend at least 350, 300 would be ok with one cd/dvd drive and one hd. Put a fast pc in there with all the trimmings and you may have trouble.

Having said that its so cheap, its worth buying and getting a psu as well.

[biggy7]

actaully 300w is addequate for the avg user,

obviously the more devices you have the more power you need,

also it depends on the quality of the psu and how much each Rail gives out.

ive just bought a 300W Qtechnology PSU (quietpc.com) (no not the cheapy Q-tec gold ones) and its supossed to perform like a 400W.

but i must say the case is great value for money

[tak5haka]

A 330W PSU was the root of all my problems with games like MOHAA freezing. I did manage to get a 500W PSU from ebuyer for around £30 though and this has solved that particular problem (but then I also have 2 HDDs, 2 CD/DVD/CD-R, a nice chunky CPU cooler, several PCI cards, the GFX card and around six cooling fans, so the extra juice is nice ...)

[biggy7]

yep, for psu's the better quality the psu the better power it will give out, so buying a high wattage psu is not always the best way to go

like enermax for example, a 350W Enermax psu will cost you £45, its that much cos its decent power! (if theres such a thing!)

[tak5haka]

ah .. but it was nice and shiny ... and hasn't failed me yet ...

[ahleung]

anybody know of a cheap mobo with 1394 capabilities for this? Been looking at ebuyer but no joy... (but loads of cheapo mobo's out there!)

ahleung

[jackroo]

Ah only prob is Shipping Band: *£5.19

Suppose £21.37 is still not bad. Yeah gonna get one

[beansontoast]

It will be 300W peak. I bought a "400W" tower & power supply from ebuyer, I replaced the psu twice (the 1st replacement was a 300W peak power one, fkin crappy ebuyer returns!), the 2nd was the same type of "400W" psu. Constant pc crashes told me that it was a chuck-away.

I bought a seperate psu, a very powerful one - 520W sustainable. Overkill, maybe. But when I change my pc components the psu will always be up to the job.

The case & fan are probably worth the money, be prepared to swap your current psu - especially if it works now & you're not adding anything to your spec.

[Epiphany]

hmmm, maybe u guys can help me. My pc keeps randomly turning itself of. It seems to do it when programs are running more often. I know its hardware cos it did it while formatting off the windows cd. And i've narrowed it down to either motherboard, processor, graphics card or PSU. The wierd thing is that when it i use it for the first time after a bit of a gap it'll work for about half hour, then when it dies it'll only work for about 2 seconds, if that. But if you hold in the power switch it'll keep working for aout half hour again. Which to me seems it could be the psu. But i stripped the pc to bare minimum (cd drive, hard drive, graphics card, processor & fan) and it still died. any ideas?

[biggy7]

hmmm, maybe u guys can help me. My pc keeps randomly turning itself of. It seems to do it when programs are running more often. I know its hardware cos it did it while formatting off the windows cd. And i've narrowed it down to either motherboard, processor, graphics card or PSU. The wierd thing is that when it i use it for the first time after a bit of a gap it'll work for about half hour, then when it dies it'll only work for about 2 seconds, if that. But if you hold in the power switch it'll keep working for aout half hour again. Which to me seems it could be the psu. But i stripped the pc to bare minimum (cd drive, hard drive, graphics card, processor & fan) and it still died. any ideas?

u using winxp mate?

if so do this> Right click my computer> advanced tab> startup recovery - settings> system failure> turm off auto restart

see if that works matey!

[Epiphany]

u using winxp mate?

if so do this> Right click my computer> advanced tab> startup recovery - settings> system failure> turm off auto restart

see if that works matey!

I dont think that'll work cos most times it doesnt even get past bios

I've got

Leadtek K7NCR18D-Pro Motherboard
AMD ATHLON XP1800 266Mhz 256Cache CPU
Gainward Geforce 4 Ti4600 128MB
2x256MB Crucial DDR 266Mhz
Dvd
Cd
Floppy
120GB HD
30GB HD
Network Card
Eagle ATX350W PSU
Running on win XP

[crazyal]

I dont think that'll work cos most times it doesnt even get past bios

I've got

Leadtek K7NCR18D-Pro Motherboard
AMD ATHLON XP1800 266Mhz 256Cache CPU
Gainward Geforce 4 Ti4600 128MB
2x256MB Crucial DDR 266Mhz
Dvd
Cd
Floppy
120GB HD
30GB HD
Network Card
Eagle ATX350W PSU
Running on win XP

Epiphany, first things first - start off with m/board, VGA card, memory & 1 HDD - remove all cards & CD/DVD drives - keep the system to a minimum, thereby starting off the elimination process. If all works OK with minimum hardware, add 1 component at a time.

Also, reset BIOS to defaults and setup CPU speed.

Sorry if I'm teaching you to sucks eggs - only trying to help :thumbs

PsxGalaxy

*EDIT* - Apologies, seen you'd already tried bare minimum, damn! Must read threads thoroughly!! Tried a BIOS update at all? Ran any diags on the memory yet?

[Epiphany]

Epiphany, first things first - start off with m/board, VGA card, memory & 1 HDD - remove all cards & CD/DVD drives - keep the system to a minimum, thereby starting off the elimination process. If all works OK with minimum hardware, add 1 component at a time.

Also, reset BIOS to defaults and setup CPU speed.

Sorry if I'm teaching you to sucks eggs - only trying to help :thumbs

PsxGalaxy

*EDIT* - Apologies, seen you'd already tried bare minimum, damn! Must read threads thoroughly!! Tried a BIOS update at all? Ran any diags on the memory yet?

Thanks for the help anyway but i already did all that and it dies at bare minimum. I just tried what biggy said anyway to see if by miracle it did work and it stayed alive for about 2 hours just sitting on the desktop. I then ran a game (CM4) and within about 4 seconds it died. Thats what makes me think its software, but then that wouldnt stop it from loading bios and it wouldnt make it turn off when i was loading from a win cd

I also downloaded a program that monitors processor temp and power input on everything, all thats sort of stuff and nothing changed when it turned off. I've also tried swapping over my ram which made no difference. I've tried pretty much everything to be honest.

[slain]

And i've narrowed it down to either motherboard, processor, graphics card or PSU.

That ain't too narrow mate.

What does the error report suggest? I'm thinking you've either got bad RAM or you're using a power-guzzling video card.

[harryb]

tell is what your hardware is, i.e. the specifications of the components

and ahleung, just buy a cheap-o motherboard that you like and buy a 1394 expansion card mate!

[sdss]

and ahleung, just buy a cheap-o motherboard that you like and buy a 1394 expansion card mate!

the only problem with that is a 1394 PCI card could cost as much as the motherboard again

[harryb]

but if you cant find a cheap one with 1394 its the cheapest other option
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...category=16145