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

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

We have a rule in our household - no XP home.

(Pro instead.)

Video?
Power supply? (Your old one may be underpowered.)
That CPU comes with a fan? (OK, so it's retail, so I hope so.)
I'd personally also go for a GB of RAM - XP is pretty hungry for memory.

[lnr]

I don't think I can justify an extra 35 quid for an operating system I intend to use only rarely. I'd much rather not be spending this money at all. And I don't expect to need to worry about memory in it. My machine at work it perfectly happy with XP and half a gig anyway.

Yes the CPU comes with a fan. Going to check current video card for compatibility when I get home, and ditto on the PSU I guess.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Ah, OK. If you don't run into any memory hogs, then 512MB may be fine.

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

Er, why?