I need an ok on these PC components

[scargill]

Have a STRONG feeling I've forgotten something
Quantity Product Name Price
(ex VAT) Total

1 x ABit NF7-S £52.00
1 x AMD Athlon XP 2400 [2.00GHZ] (RET) £42.25
1 x Arianet PerformanceDDR 256Mb PC3200 £30.00
1 x Arianet MIDI tower 2 Blk/Silv 420W £21.50
2 x 8CM ATX Case Cooler £4.00
1 x ATI Radeon 9200 64MB DDR AGP £25.50
1 x 120G Maxtor DMax+9 SATA150/7200 8MB £100.50
2 x Serial ATA Data Cable £3.00
1 x 3½" Floppy Drive £4.99
1 x Keyboard,Mouse, Spk (Beige & Black) £9.00
1 x 256MB Secure Digital Memory £24.00

And the Secure memory card thrown in there to make it SLIGHTLY on topic (it IS for my new axim x30)

[Pat Logsdon]

Are you asking if you need anything else for a complete system?

If so, you may want to add a heatsink and fan. :wink:

[scargill]

Thats what I was asking indeed.
The AMD CPU is a retail one and comes with a heatsink and fan included; apologies; I should have stated that.

[dean_shan]

What are your optical drives?

[Kowalski]

floppy drive? are you still using any?!

[scargill]

tsk!! Should have mentioned that too

I got a nice sweet offer on an NEC2510 Dual Layer DVD writer and 17" TFT monitor from another shop.

[scargill]

floppy drive? are you still using any?!

Windows XP with SATA hard drives requires you to "install the drivers from the A: drive"
apparently in XP SP2 you can do it from a memory stick, but I'm guessing only if you make an XP SP2 CD.

[dlangton]

Thats what I was asking indeed.
The AMD CPU is a retail one and comes with a heatsink and fan included; apologies; I should have stated that.

You'll really want a better heatsink and fan. I personally prefer the Thermalright heatsinks. Probably a Mechatronics fan.

[Pat Logsdon]

You'll really want a better heatsink and fan. I personally prefer the Thermalright heatsinks. Probably a Mechatronics fan.
Yeah, stock HSFs aren't anything to write home about. How about a waterblock? :mrgreen:

[Falstaff]

I got a nice sweet offer on an NEC2510 Dual Layer DVD writer and 17" TFT monitor from another shop.

That was a good choice, that is a great burner, I've burned about 60 DVDs with mine and not a single coaster yet.


You'll really want a better heatsink and fan. I personally prefer the Thermalright heatsinks. Probably a Mechatronics fan.
Yeah, stock HSFs aren't anything to write home about. How about a waterblock?

I don't think a third party heatsink/fan is necessary for most use. The stock CPU fan is good enough for most use. I have a stock Intel fan/heatsink and my 2.8GHz is overclocked 10% to 3.07GHz and I am running at ~35 degrees celcius (94 F). If you want to try overclocking or plan on a lot of gaming heavy CPU use, get a third party fan, but I really doubt that watercooling is needed.

[kosmicki]

Might want to consider upping your ram to a 512 stick. 256 is about lowest I'd go, least reccomended amount for XP. (Not the REQUIRED amount, I know that..)

Actually the most you can afford, or feel willing to spend rather. Its the cheapest way to improve preformance.


Personally I want 4 gigs of it in my next computer. Doubt I'll be able to purchase it all at once though :P

[scargill]

Yeah; I kind of decided to get another stick of ram actually.
I can safely say that this machine will never be overclocked or have any cpu hammering games on it; so I think the CPU fan should be ok. The system isn't actually for me, its for a friends business I should add. the 2 SATA HDDs are going to be ran in a Raid configuration for redundancy.

But thank you for everyones help, much appreciated and I'm ordering the system now.