Final sever spec check

[PoliticallyCorrect]

Antec Black Minuet 300 (Slimline mATX Case with 300W PSU) - £50.52
Pentium D 805 - £51.78
GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit - £50.51
Abit IP-95 Micro ATX (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £37.59

Total: £190.04

need to choose a hard drive and dvd-rom drive

see http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17708246 for purpose.

what's the difference between say a one way or an eight way opteron

-Jonny

 

[semi-pro waster]

I'd pick a DVDRW instead of a DVD drive since the price difference is normally £5 or less and it offers more options, for the uses pretty much any one that fits with the case would do.

As for hard drive the Seagate 7200.10 range are just about the fastest SATA drives apart from 10k rpm ones like the Raptors, if you want quiet then Samsung are good drives just pick one in your budget.

Oh and as for the Opterons, I believe it refers to the maximum amount of CPUs that it can work with on a multi-CPU motherboard so while an 8 way Opteron will work with anywhere between one CPU up to eight the 1 way Opteron will only ever work by itself but I'm not 100% on this.