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You could get a bare bones from novatech <Â600 http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/barebones/Novatech/BB-10904G.html this then can be modded for graphics and cooling, disks, Blue Ray dvd etc as required. On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 22:00 +0100, Gibbs wrote: > On 28/08/10 20:20, Rob Beard wrote: > > On 28/08/10 19:46, Gibbs wrote: > >> - CPU: something decent (AMD Phenom II x6 1055T?) > >> - Water cooling? Some sort of awesome cooling system > >> - Motherboard: something compatible that has 4x memory slots (for future > >> upgrades of RAM) > >> - Memory: 2x 4gb (DDR3?) > >> - Graphics: 2gb ATI Radeon 5970 - with cooling? > >> - OS: Windows ME > >> - HDD: None > >> - PSU: 800W? > >> - USB: x6 > >> - Sound: Cheap onboard something > >> > >> No OS, monitor, keyboard, network card, floppy disk, software, webcam, > >> printer etc etc. Also something that's moderately quiet. > >> > >> Thoughts? > > > > > > OS: Windows ME? > > > > LMAO! > > > > > > You'll find the motherboard will have a network card onboard (usually > > 1Gbit) and plenty of USB ports (possibly 8 ish on the rear cluster of > > ports and maybe headers for another load to plug into the front of the > > case). > > > > Also, do you really need a floppy drive? I'd suggest maybe a memory > > card reader instead. > > > > Rob > > > > Thanks for the feedback Rob and Neil (x2). > > I want high spec so it lasts a long time. 1.5k is quite a bit of money > for me but as a web developer I really need something reliable that will > keep me going some years (and can be upgraded). > > I don't need or want a floppy drive. Everything listed at the bottom > (OS, monitor etc) are things I don't need so basically a pretty bare > tower with new essential components is what I'm after. > > With regards to the graphics card... I'm pretty stuck on that due to the > proprietary drivers that surround ATI/nVidia. I won't lie I do run some > Windows games through Wine (blame my dad heh) as well as native games. > I'm leaning towards ATI solely down to the possibility of open source > drivers. > > Also thanks for the link looks really good and will be useful. > > Gibbs > Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Ten Years in the Making! www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq