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Depends what your looking to do with it, if its gaming and playing the likes of crysis and call of duty etc good quality memory, graphics, and cpu and a reasonable stable motherboard (not cheapest not most exp), the core components. Motherboard- the really expensive mobos are for enthusiasts looking to tweak everything and overclock etcetc Midrange are for people wanting them to work well and not have problems, plug in turn on forget about the advanced stuff etc. cheapest are for cheapskates looking to browse the internet and play the odd game then go nuts when its a bit slow or locks up After all this is the thing that all your other parts plug into and have to operate through. anything around the £70-100 mark should cover a really decent board Memory is one of the most fussy things about any pc generally, ya buy cheap stuff generic stuff your more likely to have problems but these days its ultra cheap even for the brandname high performance chips, for 35£'ish you can get the top of the line lifetime guarantee stuff like i linked above (corsair dominator or crucial ballistix both good choices) cpu, get what you pay for (if your not overclocking), more expensive it is, the faster the processor, for the top of the line cpu's there is normally a massive price difference between them and the next tier down, you want a really quick processor that'll do you for a long time you really want a quad core, 100£'ish will get you something decent (pentium if you don't mind spending cash for it, amd phenom if you want to save a fair bit of cash but still get really decent performance) and if your looking to play those shoot em up fps games, the one thing you really can't skimp on is the graphics card even if you have a fast cpu etc, a cheap graphics card in games will force you to tone all the settings right down or it'll stutter and jerk etc it'll just bottleneck everything else If you want to get a card you pretty much wont have to change for few years and will be able to handle anything at the minute very high-max settings your talking around the £130-150 mark for a single card or if you run a dual setup a couple of 8800GT'S which are prob still the best bang for buck card at the minute can pick them up around £60-70 each (even one of those in single would do most people still, i use one) Harddrives - go for a seagate or western digital, nice quiet well performing reliable drives Thanks for the reply. Give me some names for motherboards. Not a really tiny or a really big one. Does Vista take advanrage of 4gig of Ram??

If I'm buying a dell one, why not buy straight from Dell and customise it in their online store? Customising it on the online store isn't same as getting a custom pc ya see it's like saying "this pc and this one both have 2gbs of ram" Dell will give you 2gbs of the cheapest generic ram they can lay there hands on, same for the mobo etc whereas for the same amount or more likely alot less money when you get it built yourself you can get 2gbs of ram like http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....rodid=MY-119-CS which is high end top name branded etc. which will be a hell of a lot better performing than what dell will give you, a lot cheaper and has a lifetime guarantee so if it ever goes faulty you post it to them, they post you some new sticks *rinse repeat for other parts* Anty if I was building a new pc what are the best important bits to get for the inside? Cheers.

Fancy Liege to turn Everton over.

One of the great post war events was the government sponsored housewife speed epidemic. With excess speed left over after the war (used by soldiers to stay awake obviously) doctors were encouraged to prescribe it for any and all minor ailments. No wonder granny's house was always clean, it's not as if she could go out for a bit of a dance after her morning line (pill). Saw a programme on TV about that. What were they called? Blackballs or something like that. There was a woman on going on about how after she had finished cleaning her house she knocked on next door to see if she could do their place as well

Sort puts a whole different light on the Churchill Rovers v Adolf United! Bingo!

It's his ego combined with what I call fat insanity. Historically thin insane and fat insane deliver quite different outcomes. So for instance Caligula was 'thin insane' ie a very immediate 'I don't give a fuck I'm insane' kind of working there....Nero is a classic and scientifically proven vehicle for 'fat insane' - the fat cells kind of hold the insanity inside, so you get a lot of over drinking, silly grins and no awareness of reality, you feel the insanity but it isn't wholly visible (masked by fat).

I'm sure they said 3-6 months in May. Perhaps it was a misprint and it should have said 36 months.

The Federal Reserve? Surely there can't be any reserves left?!

The conversation??? Wow Sammy! Very good.

Is this your joke? A joke by someone else? A true story? What??? When the word spreads it takes many forms, it may even take against itself, but once uttered the word has immense power and that is the nature of the thing.....It can never again be put away.......

THE REVOLU-TOON HAS BEGUN! Clearly believing the only difference between Newcastle and Real Madrid is a bit of substandard HTML, SaveNewcastle.com has launched its bid to complete a 'socio'-style buy-out of the club. Drawing their inspiration from the continent's fan-owned giants like Real and Barcelona, the group want to make Newcastle "the first supporter-owned Premiership team". The website, with glorious simplicity, explains how it plans to sell three million shares in the club at £100 each in order to raise the £300 million needed to buy out Ashley. It also calls for football fans everywhere - not just Geordies - to get involved. Furthermore, it claims foreign investment won't help Newcastle - "what happens when Roman Abramovich gets bored with Chelsea? Or what happens when your billionaire American owners stop speaking to each other?" The above diagram shows how fan ownership could make Newcastle richer overnight by cutting out the middle men and ploughing all the fans' money straight into the club. And if you're not convinced, why not check out the extra benefit of being a shareholder, including special deals, giveaways and ticket priorities. It's all here - and so simple! They've got £100 of the Bung's money. Only 2,999,999 more to go... --

Am I the only one who doesn't believe this?? Nah, that's pure bull imo. Agreed, he's not that stupid surely It's not stupidity. I think he has cracked. IMO he's in denial at the moment. It is difficult for this kind of ego to admit that a) There is a genuine crisis. That it is of his own making.