Technically this is D-I-Y but of the self built computer kind.......

[No Name]

Right I want to take advantage of the January sales and want to build my own computer.

I got a new 4K monitor for Chrimbo, and I can re-use mt current graphics card which is an AMD Radeon R9 280X card. (I know the card does not currently support WDR or WCG even though the monitor does)

I also got a new Cherry mouse, Cherry KB and wacom graphics tablet as part of black friday deals.

I intend to re-use the tower case & PSU and have two brand new DVD drives in the loft and the existing Samsung EVO SATA3 512GB SSD.

I already have a retail licence for Windows 10 professional and I now have Office 365 and a soon to be installed gigabit fibre to the home.

All I need is a half decent motherboard such as supermicro, Asus or gigabyte or ASRock...

at least 16 GB DDR4 ram (as 2 off 8 GB sticks)

An Intel or Ryzen processor

A Samsung EVO M2 SSD as the boot drive

my usual sources for PC parts are:

Scan.co.uk Ebuyer DABS

Now who else are doing stonking good deals in the January sales?

[GB]

Amazon should be on your list.

[Martin Brown]

OK. But you haven't specified what you want to use it for!

Gaming or very high end AI you need a good graphics card but for anything else the built in Pentium 2D graphics may actually be faster!

The right choice depends on the application programs you use.

Almost everybody - they are desperate to convert stock back into cash! I have seen the same kit at +/-30%.

Annoyingly one of the things I was marking went up 30% in the sales :(

[Theo]

Try:

It covers many (but not all of) the major suppliers and lets you spec a build that gives the cheapest vendor for each part, checking compatibility along the way.

Theo

[John Rumm]

With IT kit there a massive shortages at the moment - so stuff is hard to get and prices high.

I was ordering stuff to upgrad my "everyday" PC just before Christmas and stuff was going out of stock almost as fast as I could get it into the virtual trolley!

[alan_m]

Yep, as I've posted before, 4 items I purchased on Amazon BEFORE the black friday "sales" were cheaper than during the sales!

[Andrew]

At the bottom ?

[Andy Burns]

No, that's reserved for Wish

[Andrew]

Novatech, Portsmouth ?.

[Vir Campestris]

DIIK. But uk.comp.homebuilt is over there ---->

Andy

[Dave Plowman (News]

I suppose it depends how old your peripherals are. I recently fitted a new MB when changing to Win10 and found many wouldn't work with it.

Ebay is probably as good as any, and easy to compare prices.