ok so the people that "were" building my new comp', completely cocked it up, and were about to ship me a pile of (....whatever fits here.........) when i looked up what they had put in it , i found out they had stuck in a 2d card!!!!!!!! and that was the advice of a "graphics specialist" apparentely the person that built my last comp' (happy with) had left, and the new "graphics specialist" doesn't know sheeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!! so i've cancelled that order.(phew)

ok so, i'm wondering how hard is it to build it myself if i got all the components, is there any soldering and stuff to do or is everything just slotted in the right place? if so then i would rather look to buy a already made comp' from somewhere, else i solder my eyeballs to my motherboard!!!

now i was looking around the web last night on how to build a powerful graphics workstation, based on graphics apps and not games, and at a low cost,and found this load of stuff, which i'm hoping someone can look at for me and tell me whether these parts are new or out of date stuff, some of it sounds new but it doesn't seem to allow for 4Gb ram or more, so it sounds out of date, so hoping someone might reconise some of the part names and be able to tell me whether they should be bought or whether there is a newer version or better or more reliable version, anyway here are the parts i have found so far, as i'm not sure what else i might need, so if anyone can tell me what else i need, i would be very grateful!!!

if i have found all the parts i need but they are old and out of date then i will at least know what bits to look for, and can look for the best setup ($$$$$$$$)i can find and then work down from there ($$$$) ..........(graphics specialist indeed!!!!!...let it go Vince!!)

ok so here are some parts that i found:

case........................cheiftec silver matrix MA-01SLD full tower case.
power supply..........Enermax EG465P-VE(431w output)
drives.......................Maxtor 20Gb for C:drive (system+os)
                                  Maxtor 80Gb for D:drive (apps and data)
                                 (not sure yet)  100Gb min drive for storage (renders and scenes)
Ram........................from Crucial.com.........PC2700 DDR ( x2 =1Gb so not sure as i want 4Gb)

Motherboard (reason for the above ram)........Soyo P45 64S DX Dragon ultra (allows for up to 8 fast ATA IDE disk drives)

CPU...................pentium P4 3.2ghz /4 Mb/ 800MHz  775pin Dual core 940SL95W (saves money over the Xeon)

DVD+RW............(same as what i already have probally 'cause i know it works)

so can anyone tell me whether that lot is old hat or good specs please, so far that lot totals in at £360 minus the Ram.

also can anyone please give me a link to somewhere that builds or sells already built machines specifically designed for 3D apps, that aren't "Dell"!!!! and that i won't need to sell a kidney to be able to afford!!!

Many thanks for any help on this!!

(Graphics specialist indeed!!.......)