Hi everyone.

I want to build my own pc because it is so much cheaper than buying one premade.

I know where to put things etc and it is pretty easy to do, so thought it would be fun.

I can salvage a 320gb sata hard drive and a couple of cd drives from my old pc and everything else i need to scrap i think, what do you think? Maybe the memory too? These are the specs:



Motherboard
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP, 1800 MHz (13.5 x 133) 2200+
Motherboard Name Shuttle AK38(N) (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Audio)
Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8367 Apollo KT333CF
System Memory 512 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (02/12/03)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port Printer Port (LPT1)

Display
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 (128 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440

Multimedia
Audio Adapter VIA AC'97 Enhanced Audio Controller

Storage
IDE Controller VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller ALi SATA/RAID Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive Hitachi HDT725032VLA SCSI Disk Device (298 GB)
Optical Drive CREATIVE DVD-ROM DVD6240E (6x/24x DVD-ROM)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions
C: (NTFS) 152617 MB (137133 MB free)

Input
Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse PS/2 Compatible Mouse

Network
Network Adapter Belkin 54g Wireless USB Network Adapter (192.168.0.4)

Peripherals
Printer PDFConverter
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB2 Controller VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller
USB Device Belkin 54g Wireless USB Network Adapter
USB Device Logitech Mic (Orbit/Sphere MP)
USB Device Logitech USB Camera (Orbit/Sphere MP)
USB Device QuickCam Orbit/Sphere MP


I want to have a nice computer for going on the net, chatting on msn and playing games online. My pc now does a pretty decent job, even though it is rubbish! But it stalls ALOT and overheats and i really think it is time to just have something 100% consistent and reliable.

Possibly something for making videos on etc too because i like using my webcam to record, which is a £70 webcam but looks terrible on this pc.

Any help is really appreciated, thanks,

Richard.