Building a custom PC - £2000

[Agnostic Bear]

SSD's are not worth it at the moment. I mean what can you do with 60GB? Yes, you can install your programs onto the 500gb drive but that defeats the purpose as it'll only go as fast as the hard drive will allow. The only benefit would be a quicker boot time for windows. Paying £100 for 10-20 seconds off boot time? Not worth it

I don't know about you, but i can no way fit all my programs into 45GB not including games. Right click on your program files folder and tell me how much space it's taking up.

It would be better to get 2 and RAID them

30GB ish

[Chippiewill]

Removing SSD brought me back down to budget, also I can cope without one at the moment so I doubt I need one now. I will wait for the price to come down.

Also x2 30gb is a tiny bit more than x1 60gb....

[Stephen!]

I meant get two 60GB's but that would just blow the price out of proportion. I guess if you REALLY wanted SSD you could cheapen down some of the other parts.

[no waiii]

i didnt read the other post s sorry if someone said it,

Why do you wanna sepnd £200 on a mouse and keyboard....

tesco sell them for like £3

[Chippiewill]

because £3 tesco ones are naff, also read the bloody thread!

[Flisker]

I don't know about you, but i can no way fit all my programs into 45GB not including games. Right click on your program files folder and tell me how much space it's taking up.

It would be better to get 2 and RAID them

my program files is 73.7GB big

[Nick.]

mines 25GB but that's the apps alone not including preference files and such.

[Recursion]

like 40GB and thats just after a format...

[Chippiewill]

This will end up as a post your program files size thread

[Chippiewill]

Sorry for bumping however I have a small update.

I have made the final adjustmants to the purchase and I am about to pay for it. I have decided to upgrade some of the components to make it all easier:

The motherboard I (re)upgraded to palm edition as when looking through the asus website about it I discovered that:

a) (not definate about this) that it can be used as a windows side show thing
b) It is very useful for overclocking as it can interface with the mobo and change settings (I think) whilse the computer is fully booted up (e.g. windows is up and running)

I have also decided to add cooling paste (Thought upgrading from stock stuff would be beneficial) and a decent fan (Akasa Nero socket 1366 cooler)

Here is my final setup (ps if someone can find a better chair for a similar price on another website then I would prefer to go for that):