This page is to track the PC I am going to build myself. I am setting myself a limit of £50.00 per component. Some will be easy to get under £50, others may not be so. Not exactly sure what components I will get, but there are a few requirements that will definitely be needed. Lots off USB2 ports including some on front of PC and serial ports (although used a lot nowadays, my Ham radio needs them).

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Hardware Obtained (Updated - 04/03/2007)

  • Chieftec DA-01W Full Tower
    • Dimension: 470x 205x 670mm(DxWxH)
    • Drive: 6 x 5.25″+2 x 3.5″FDD+6 x 3.5″HDD
    • Fits different size M/B, including 12″Wx 13″L XEON motherboard
    • Optional 4 x 80 mm cooling fans
    • Optional side panel cooling fan
  • MSI K7N2 Delta system board for Athlon Xp CPUs
    • 1.33Ghz Athlon chip (can use 3Ghz+ Socket A)
    • Hedgehog 294M heatsink and fan for CPU (solid copper)
    • Artic Silver 2 compound
    • 2x 256Mb PC2100 DDR Ram (Max 3Gb DDR PC4000/DDR-500)
  • 350W Enermax PSU
  • 3 Evercool 80mm case fans
  • Siluro T400 Geforce 2 MX 64MbTV graphics card (AGP)
  • Plextor 40.12.40 CD Writer
  • 52x Creative labs CD-ROM
  • Sony Floppy drive
    • SubTotal = £120 (for all above items)
  • 80GiB Hitachi Deskstar HDD
    • SubTotal = £50
    • (40Gib now in iMac and sister should have be end March 07)

Cost so far = £170.00

Hardware Required (* = see Hardware Obtained above)

  • PC Case*
  • Floppy Disk Drive*
  • Hard Drive* (Ordered via eBay)
  • CD-ROM Drive*
  • DVD Drive
  • Processor*
  • Processor Cooling Fan*
  • Motherboard*
  • Memory Modules*
  • Power Supply*
  • Video Card*
  • Keyboard & Mouse



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