:dontevengothere: DONT BOTHER GETTING ONE FROM A COMPANY!!!!!! ESPECIALLY NOT DIGITAL VILLAGE!!!!!!

I work for access to music in the uk and one of our colleges bought 10 music computers from digital village. expensive, slow, unreliable, when we opend them up the components were piss poor. They kept breaking down and DV messed us around so much that after a year of us asking when they would repair them the warranty ran out and they refused to do anything.

I REPEAT! DONT BOTHER!!!

Build your own from components bought on-line, quality motherboard is a real key - ASUS or ABIT do some good ones. Also if you are going to get athlon, make damn sure you dont get a MOBO with VIA chipsets on either the northbridge or southbridge.

Spend a bit more and get pentium 4. it IS worth it. quieter, better instructions on the chipset. stable. It is a hard lesson to learn especially when the althon stuff is cheaper, but you'll be better off in the long run.

It isnt hard to build your own, a trained monkey can do it (look at me!!!) im no expert (obviously)

building your own can save you loads of money and hassle, you'll learn about what makes your computer tick and you dont have to rely on piss ant companies to mess you around (i know i dont, im perfectly capable of annoying myself without the help of a money grubbing so called audio speicalist)

Rant over... i feel drained... :lol:

I cant comment about carrilion, they are expensive tho...