should i upgrade from barebone to tower ?

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Hiya peeps i have a little question at min i have a barebone eq3401 and thinking about upgrading to a tower but money is low, so thinking about going for this mobo on ebay, and using my current graphics card and then getting a athlon 64 3700 and 2gb ram which im using in my barebone at min and wondered if doing this will i have ba better system then i have now cheers.

http://www.soltek.de/soltek/product...n_st=EQ3401&sc=Qbic_Spring.jpg&pro=EQ3401.jpg

mobo = http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6881318723&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEWN:IT&rd=1

Ps hope these links work.... :confused:
 
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Towers (especially full tower) are great, in that you have no problems with CPU cooler restrictions, space to fit drives without smacking into motherboard, can adjust drive jumper settings and see what you're doing, have better venilation, etc etc. Also space for standard ATX PSU's with modular cables (usually deeper) Do you need space for several optical drives and hard drives?

A largish MATX isn't too bad either, ie my Silverstone TJ07. I wouldn't buy second hand PC gear, you don't know if previous owner is ham fisted. Mate has a Qpack is larger than yours, but still it's too cramped for me, TJ07 bit more space.. Top pick is MATX TJ07 with one HD, bottom is system in my sig.

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Well i currently have 4 other Hds and the 1 in my barebone, so yes i would like to fit all hds in 1 system but not having had a AMD system before i dont know much about then but i do plan to buy the mobo mentioned and then an athlon 64 3700, and the memory in my barebone and the graphics card, then i want to put to cd-roms into my system 1 a writer other a combo and then if possible with all my hds in, so i need help and any info ppl can give me, also im after a tower and psu but not having a lot of money now i need a cheap 1 but not to cheap it screws up but i also want a silent psu so again i need all help possible guys and dolls, sorry to be a pain but the last two amd systems i had blew up but will admit i brought them from pc world ages ago now, so would like to try amd again using the mobo in the link cheers. :eek:

Ps never built a system in my life before hehe

Pps these are the items i have listed below

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinium, nForce3, Skt 939, AMD A64/FX = mobo

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) = Cpu

Geil 2GB PC3200 Dual Channel = Memory

Sapphire x800 xl Agp = Graph card

also have 5 yes 5 hds i would like inside the system
 
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Well a decent case costs a bit of money, sure you can buy a £30 midi tower with supplied PSU and it'll work. Some are better than others. But the stock PSU's are usually low quality and loud. The Seasonics S12 are very quiet, but so are the Enermax Liberties. I would get the Liberty, offers more connectivity and better cooling for only slightly more noise (soft purr audible couple of feet away) The mobo fan and GFX card will be louder than PSU fan.

Browse a few sites read reviews on cases. But for 4 hard drives looking at least largish midi tower. Fit two optical drives, it saves a lot of time ie installing a game on one whilst reading music from the other.

That mobo is Nforce 3, I would get a Nforce 4 mobo
 
Nforce 3 is AGP whereas nfroce 4 is pcie, I see that you have an AGP card so I would recommend getting an asrock dual sata which has both agp and pcie if you want to upgrade in the future.

EDIT: beaten to it
 
Ive already got the mobo :( now i feel a plonka, even looked at ocuk before i got the board and couldnt find both agp and pcie :( god dam it more money wasted :mad:
 
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