Any computer building experts on here?

Having been in a similar situation in the past, I discovered all sorts of nasties. If your PC is old, it's probably an IDE not a SATA drive, which means adaptors to get it to work with a new motherboard, etc etc etc.

To cut a long story short, unless you have an inside knowledge, buying a new or nearly new machine (system unit only) is probably a better bet.

I was looking at the fat end of £270 for a new system unit only to find that I could get a new laptop for £300 (Compaq), and that included free software deals which I would not be able to get on their own. The only reason I replaced the 2004 WinXP unit was because it had become unreliable in powering up.
 
stop with the thread necro!

My inbox was stuffed full of people pm'ing me about components I had for sale in a thread dating back to 2008 yesterday, because some one raised it from the dead... (obviously prices/demand have gone up since, I dont remember getting that much interest in M737 bits at the time... unfortunately its all long gone)
 
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