I *hate* buying pc components...

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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

[(Anonymous)]

Babes, JSUK, I've not had any trouble with Maxtor drives... well, I killed one when I had a PSU explode, but I don't think that counts... nothing much else in that box survived that incident...!

I've got 5, of varying vintages (7Gb (probably 6 or 7 year sold), 8.4Gb (slightly newer), 80Gb, 120Gb (those two are the same age, about 3.5 years) and 300Gb (1 year or so old)) all in current use and I *think* I've got a 15Gb knocking about in storage somewhere too...

If I had to make a drive company recommendation it would be between Seagate, Fujitsu and Maxtor.... or rather, it would be "avoid Western Digital..." as I've had various WD drives fail.

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