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I want to replace my ancient Compaq presario AMD 500 machine.. I wanted something reasonably upto date for DVD recording, web browsing, office docs and the odd game (not high end)Ive chosen these these components and would appreciate any advice/tips/alternatives for saving £- The Asus has 1 EIDE Cable+1 SATA Cable in the box as well as fan/heatsink.

Barebones - Asus T2-AE1 Athlon64 SKT754 SIS760GX Audio LAN Mirage
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=95028

Processor
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=93870"" target="_blank">AMD Athlon 64 (ADA2800AEP4AX) 2800+ Skt 754 512k Cache OEM
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=93870

Hard Drive
Seagate ST380817AS Barracuda 80GB 7200RPM SATA/150 8MB Cache - OEM
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=80963

DVDRW DriveLG GSA-4167BAL 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer Internal IDE (Black) - OEM
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=97237

512 DDR
2xKingston 256MB DDR PC3200 400MHz 184pin CL3 Memory Module
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=49292

Mitsumi 7-in-1 Floppy Drive / Media Drive SM/MS/MD/CF/MM/SD Black
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=61877

Total Cost comes to £295. I have an OS ready. Graphics card can come later. Is there anything else I need apart from power cable for the floppy, screws+brackets for the drives?

This item was edited on Sunday, 16th October 2005, 14:46

Hi

You didnt say which op system you are going to use ? Please note that the floppy drive 7 in 1 is only plug and play with xp i have tried mine on others and it only works as a floppy in them and i could not find a driver that worked for the win 98sc.And as for a power cable for it? Your power supply would normally have that as standard , mine does.Your motherboard has to have the usb pins internal for the card reader part to connect up.[ check the pin layout is correct ] The drive and card reader works fine with xp on my machine and have had no problems .

bye

R.B