Rick Hughes wrote

Been a number of years since I have built a PC from scratch .. had to feed
in loads of FD's to load Dos and W 3.1 :-)

I need a new PC at home, I have my spec sorted for a W7 64bit (apart from
case), and just wondering whether it's worth getting all the parts and
assembling yourself.

I've just done that with my latest, no regrets.

But then I do that a lot more often than you do.

Or buying form one place and get them to assemble ... (Overclockers
assemble for £70 for example)

I did get one done like that for a mate, and discovered
that the ****ers had ****ed that up very comprehensively
indeed, didn't even manage to use the right screws to
attach the motherboard to the case.

If they assemble .. at least you can be sure it all works together ... and
guarantee result, views ?

Yes, that's one theoretical advantage.

But are you going to insist that they open it up
so you can inspect if before you pay for it ?

If you think getting it pre-assembled, any companies particularly good
price wise ?
Overclockers, SCAN, Power PC ?

Spec proposed:

ASUS P87ZZ-V LE
CPU Intel i5 3570K IvyBridge

That's the way I went, but with an Asus P8P67V3

16 GB DDR3 RAM (Samsung or Vengeance)
PSU 500W modular (Corsair or CoolerMaster)
GPU - MSI GTX560 Ti 1GB
SSD - 120GB SATA III Corsair
HDD - 1TB SATA III WD Caviar Blue
PCI - 2 port FireWire
1 x DVD/CD ROM

No real point in that.

1 x DVD/CD RW
(BluRay RW to be added to future)

Undecided on CASE .. possibles a
CoolerMaster HAF 912
ANTEC 300
ANTEC 302

I got the CoolerMaster Elite 334 myself.

Some of the hard drive slots are a bit close to the mother board for
convenient use.