Alreet lads,

im looking to build my own base unit for use in home/office & media server use not really for games as the last pc games i played were doom,heretic, simcity possibly quake

Anyway things have moved on since my IDE days of my first pentium chip unit so have a budget of between £500 - £600 max. I will need about 2tb storage, not worried about OS but it will more than likely have win 7 on it. Will be using it on my 28" Samsung lcd

Can anyone comment on the spec below improve / remove some of the items, i can possibly get cheaper prices but just used ebuyer as a bench mark, I know need to add mouse and keyboard and not sure about the onboard sound and graphics ??


Casecom 6788 Black Mid Tower Case with Full Black Interior/Exterior 120mm Blue LED Front Fan - No PSU 172779 396 in stock £29.91 £25.45 £29.91 £25.45

Xilence Red Wing 120mm Quiet Fan - 3&4pin connection 138586 160 in stock £4.99 £4.24 £4.99 £4.24

Arctic Power 700W PSU - With PCI-E, 4x SATA, 20+4, ATX12V, 8pin +12V Connectors - Retail Boxed 124927 115 in stock £41.98 £35.72 £41.98 £35.72

Intel Core i3 540 3.06GHz Socket 1156 4MB L3 Cache Retail Box Processor 185939 9 in stock £118.70 £101.02 £118.70 £101.02

Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H H55 Socket 1156 onboard HDMI VGA DVI 7.1 Channel audio mATX Motherboard 189295 11 in stock £64.98 £55.30 £64.98 £55.30

Kingston 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1066MHz i5 Memory Kit 1.5V CL7 142085 17 in stock £90.00 £76.59 £90.00 £76.59

Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache - OEM 173804 931 in stock £49.93 £42.49 £99.86 £84.98

Plexus SATA 2.0 to right angle SATA 7-pin Cable (Red) 46cm / 18" 151963 500 in stock £1.84 £1.56 £3.67 £3.12

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro rev 2 Socket 775, 1156, 1366, AM2, AM3 Heatpipe CPU Cooler 176157 46 in stock £17.95 £15.27 £17.95 £15.27

Sony AD7241S 24x DVD±RW DL & RAM with LightScribe SATA - OEM Black 165168 23 in stock £17.79 £15.14 £17.79£15.14

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