Linking us each to our very own shopping basket is nice, but it won't help you get any advice...

Hint: take a screenshot or copy|paste the data

 

Whats your price range? And are you building it, or just looking a premade system?

 

Mistake-Vista.

Alternatives-XP, Ubuntu, Mint, MEPIS, ect ect.

Take it from someone stuck with vista because of non-supported hardware for XP and the need for windows only programs. Vista is terrible, the only decent thing about it is Direct X 10. Even then, only Crysis really uses it.

If you really want something newer than XP, get Ubuntu (better eye candy anyway, with compiz). And wait for windows 7, which actually looks promising.

Besides that, why would you pay for it? An OS is publicly avalaible just about anywhere on the net with a simple google search, including vista/XP. Don't waste the money.

 

I'd invest in another 2 GB of RAM, especially at that price. I do wonder about the HDD though. You can get 160gigs as an external 2.5" at that price nowadays. At that price, you should be able to get at least 320 gigs, even from WD (including 7200rpm and 16MB of cache).

 

Vista Sp1 actually isn't that bad. I'm a picky fuck, and I think it's worlds better then RC Vista actually.

But yeah if you're on a budget, steal it. AMD fucking sucks for the money. Intel's been outperforming them for awhile now unless somethings recently changed. Don't bother with the budget sound card, it's a waste if you buy a decent up to date mobo, the onboard sound will be just as good as a budget old sound card. You've also forgotten to include a cooler for the cpu, the stock ones aren't worth a piss. Yes they work, but they don't work well.

 

It depends on what you are doing with it, but if you can afford the extra, more RAM is always a good upgrade. If you are planning on storing media (music, ripped dvds etc...), I would definitely advise getting a larger HDD (getting a 320 gig as mentioned above would not cost much more). The HDD does seem kind of expensive as is, but I haven't shopped for internals in a while.

Also, seeing as you have a 64-bit processor, I would say get Vista 64-bit Premium Sp1.

Other than that, it looks like a pretty decent setup for the price.

 

Work in progress:

Changes made:
Using ebuyer, although not perfect supplier certainly better than Dabs in my experience.
Different case/psu.
Extra 2GB RAM, different brand.
64bit instead of 32bit Vista.
500GB HDD instead of 160GB, 750GB or even 1TB can be had for like 10-20 more.
SATA dvd writer instead of EIDE, hate those cables and pointless.
Different graphics card brand but same card, not any real difference.
Better speakers within budget.
Better monitor 1" bigger, size matters and cant quite reach 22" without going over £600. :/

I'd also suggest getting the following for security: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150180

I hope that's helpful to you!

 

53 pounds for a 160gig drive? That is a total ripoff unless I'm missing something special about the drive. Cant recall the pound to dollar conversion and too lazy too search it, but for reference you should be getting approximately 100gigs per 10dollars spent (usually a bit more than that but still).

 

I agree with Midknight, Vista SP1 is much better than I thought it would be. Since you're planning on getting a 64bit capable computer why not get the 64bit OS? 32bit software does work on it.

If you are getting Vista then you'll need at least another 2GB of RAM, and since 64bit supports more RAM than you'll ever need - I think its in the TBs - you can put even more in if you can afford it.

Gigabyte onboard sound is quite good I've found, so theres no real need for the sound card, and if you find there is you can buy it later, probably for a cheaper price too

I'd go with a bigger hard drive, stick with Western Digital, Seagate have been having lots of problems with the 7200.11 series.

The Radeon seems like a decent choice for a video card, though I've only had a quick look on the Gigabyte website for the specs.

Go for a SATA DVD drive over the IDE, SATA is better overall, and IDE is on the way out (if its not there already).

As for the CPU coolers Midknight mentioned have a look at Thermalright and Noctua.

You might need to get a bigger PSU to be sure that everything gets enough power, here's a PSU Calculator from Antec so you can check.

And last, but not least, I'd recommend getting an Intel CPU over the AMD. Intel perform better and from what I've seen AMD has been playing catch up for a while.

Hope this helps!