New Build: Please advice

[JRB3]

I am building a new rig for a friend on a budget. It's not for gaming, it's for work, he is a college lecturer therefore stability is paramount so no overclocking unfortunately.
Below are links to the parts list:

Cpu: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/118226
Mobo: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130329
RAM: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131566
HDD: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/94406
PSU: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/120376
DVD R/W: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/129527
Case: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/119589

I have checked the components for compatibility for example: The mobo has ports for the 2 sata drives and the PSU has connectors for the sata drives. But if you guys and girls could spare a moment would give it your "Seal of approval" or not as the case may be.

The guy i'm building this rig for needs it like yesterday so i have to buy what is in stock now and i like ebuyer because there cheap in general, have no delivery charges and have not previously failed me.

Thank you, James.

[Steve R Jones]

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Link no workee.

[RamonGTP]

I would go for a different board. While ECS isn't a "bad" brand, and they generally make good baords for the money, if stability is paramount as you say, I would spend a bit more and chose something of higher quality. I'm a fan of Gigabyte and Abit boards. I use to also recommend asus, but the last several boards I've used from them have been absolutly horrible, and that's assume they worked in the first place.

[KarmaKiller]

ASUS is good IMO. That's what I'm running on now. And I've used in a couple of different builds. Never had a problem. I will second the Gigabyte though, they have some nice boards out now. Next I would say MSI.

This is what I would get though..
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/113975

Good luck!

[krotch]

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[JRB3]

To be honest, swear on my daugthers life, i wanted to go ASUS because of the reputation they have but the MOBO i wanted is out of stock:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/123834

This has decent integrated 6100 graphics Nvidia chipset, which i am familiar with etcetera. I think deep down the main reason i have chosen the ECS board is because it supports full PCI-E x 16 bandwidth at a low price meaning that if my friend should want to plug in a decent graphics card to play games with for there son etcetera they can without the 8 x bandwidth limitation nonsense also as with the power supply i have selected it to cope with upgrades. But the ECS board is sound isn't it ? Just because it is ECS doesn't mean it will just be lame and fail does it ? Oh just for my piece of mind there aren't any compatibility errors are there nobody has said anything about this.

Karma £52 is too much mate but thanks for your input.

Krotch i think you need to get a life, i know computer hardware but will always ask for help to make sure i get it right because it makes sense to do so.

YOUR POST IS OFFENSIVE AND NOT NECESSARY.

[KarmaKiller]

Krotch, I just reported your last post. There is no need for that. JRB3 is just trying to get some advice, which is why this forum is here. No one called you a fucking idiot in your post on Floating Point Unit. I hope you get banned, you just deter people from coming on here..

On topic now..
I think your good on compatibility. I don't see anything that won't work..

As far as ECS boards. I've used one in a build, and it's still running with no problems. I myself don't have any bad experience with them. But they're not the greatest board out. But if your that strapped for money, then it should do for your build.

[krotch]

Quote:

Originally Posted by KarmaKiller

Krotch, I just reported your last post. There is no need for that. JRB3 is just trying to get some advice, which is why this forum is here. No one called you a fucking idiot in your post on Floating Point Unit. I hope you get banned, you just deter people from coming on here..

On topic now..
I think your good on compatibility. I don't see anything that won't work..

As far as ECS boards. I've used one in a build, and it's still running with no problems. I myself don't have any bad experience with them. But they're not the greatest board out. But if your that strapped for money, then it should do for your build.

haha

[RamonGTP]

Quote:

Originally Posted by KarmaKiller

Krotch, I just reported your last post. There is no need for that. JRB3 is just trying to get some advice, which is why this forum is here. No one called you a fucking idiot in your post on Floating Point Unit. I hope you get banned, you just deter people from coming on here..

On topic now..
I think your good on compatibility. I don't see anything that won't work..

As far as ECS boards. I've used one in a build, and it's still running with no problems. I myself don't have any bad experience with them. But they're not the greatest board out. But if your that strapped for money, then it should do for your build.

I too haven't had any issues with the ECS boards I've used, though I would personally feel more comfortable with something a bit higher end for my own builds... As far as ASUS, funny thing, their lower end GeForce 6100/6150 based boards I've actually had very good luck with. It's their higher end boards that I've found severely lacking. In particular, their P35 boards. YMMV of course.

[JRB3]

I decided against the Celeron for 300 from bestbuy and have placed my order with Ebuyer for the parts listed all except the CPU because it was out of stock so i had to get the 4400 x2 instead for around £7 more which is not a massive problem.

The system was meant to cost £200 but it has cost £225 but i think the system is great for the price. The parts should arrive middle of next week time. I am looking forward to my first dual core and DDR2 build. Thanks for your input Steve, Ramon & Karma it is greatly appreciated.

I would just like to say special thanks to Krotch for his posts which have been pleasant in nature and contained colourful creative language throughout.