I *hate* buying pc components...

[lnr]

Does this lot for approx 230 quid inc vat sound sensible?

• Abit UL8 939 5.1 Sound/LAN onboard
• AMD Athlon64 3000 Venice Retail Socket 939
• Kingston 512MB DDR PC3200 Non-ECC DIMM
• Microsoft Windows XP Home OEM SP2
• 80GB Maxtor DiamondMAX+10 133/7200
• 200GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 8MB

(My motherboard died, if I'm replacing it should do memory/cpu at same time, and I'd quite like a working Windows at not *too* expensive and am thinking of switching to Ubuntu to give it a try and don't have a huge amount of disk so....)

Edit: Perhaps bigger disk, brings price up a little to 250 quid, and at least one person recommends avoiding Maxtor.

NB: Windows is *not* going to be my day-to-day OS, this machine will be running either Debian or Ubuntu 95% of the time or more.

Comments

[bonyandidle.livejournal.com]

Aria are quite good, though their service can be a bit random. I've used them for years now as their prices are usually about as good as you can get, and even when they cock things up they do sort it out in the end. Plus they once sent me an extra motherboard by accident, which I got 30 quid for, so I was happy.