Want advice on Building a computer.

[Saitek]

Can anyone give general advice (this is for my Dad) as he wants to build our first computer. Perhaps you know of some good sites (we live in the UK) that are recommendable for parts. (Maybe ebay).
Which parts are best bought new, which are ok second hand etc. He is a lot better on computers than me but we'd like to do it - it's just that we haven't done anything like it before apart from the usual fittings on upgrades.
Maybe someone could match up a selection of bits from a British site that we need. Price tag is roughly

[Gixer]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk

I buy nearly all my bits from here and there is a great forum for help too!

[GunnerMan]

You should be able to build a decent system out of 500 Euros...especially f you ave a gfx card aleady... You want to by your CPU and I would say mobo new...the rest you can prolly get seckond hand but thats alwaqys a gamble..

[Saitek]

Thanks guys.. we'll be looking at that site. My dad is just looking at a manual for building them. I'm really looking forward to it. It looks really fun!

[zeberdee]

Hi try www.dabs.com/uk look at some of their offers. I recomend them the service is very good. I built my computer, I got parts from E-bay and dabs, there are some bargins out there! Good luck, people here will always help with advice. Regards Chris

[TacitBlue]

if you want to see the worst case scenerio as a result of building your own, look at my thread "building new PC". I second GunnerMans advice: buy the CPU and MoBo new. because as I recently found out, a bad AMD chip can ruin a good MoBo, or vice versa.