Thanks to all for your valuable advice. I have already started buying bits. For example, I have ordered an ATX Midi tower with a 250watt Athlon PSU - good choice?

good choice Bus, now spend twice as long researching motherboards...as already suggested.

For particularly good information on motherboards, CPU's and, should you be a speedfreak, their overclocking search on 'Tom's Hardware'.

Been building PC's for a long time here at the Towers and wouldn't be without that resource.

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Another good site full of hardware info and overclocking tips is www.sysopt.com Well worth a visit.

Regards

Wiggly Amp

Here's some good sites for price comparisions:

http://www.pcindex.co.uk/

http://www.pricewatch.co.uk/

http://www.micropricecheck.co.uk/

For supplies in USA try:
http://www.necx.com/ Seem to be really good prices. (I've been comparing hard drives recently.)

http://www.ecost.com/ ecost expect to trade to Europe sometime early 2000.

Speaking of comparing hard drives try:
http://www.storagereview.com/

Hope that helps.

Regards,
h_k

There are now shopping services which will go find the very best price for you. It's true, just sign up and tell 'em exactly what you want.

If you know exactly what you are after there is always http://www.egghead.com which features a surplus liquidation at http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/eek.gif amazingly low prices. I always check there first, just to be certain I don't spend un-necessarily. It only takes a sec. to check.

Happy building! ;)