If your on a limited budget, I'd go for a barebones and then upgrade over time, that's what I did.

hibbyware Wrote:Hard Drive - You could beg borrow get donated or 'borrow' an old one from somewhere to save a few £s until a later date.

Lol I "borrowed" 2 160GB HDD from my current workplace as they got replaced after some computers failed from crashing as such, I knew the HDD weren't the prob, but replacing seemed to fix it, and the suspect problem drives are happily in use 18hrs a day lol