Cosmetics

Please don't buy cases with fancy front lights and fans and what not. Or if you are going to, at least buy one with enough connectors to run everything.

Many PC cases come with cheap nasty power supplies. They typically only come with enough connectors to power four devices, the board and maybe a fan. Somebody wanted to run two CD units, two hard drives and, for reasons that were never discovered, FOUR fans and two lights. It later transpired they bought the case purely for the lights, not realising everything else had to take priority so there were no molexes left!

Y-Splitters (power adaptors to effectively split two power molexes into one) are available but not really advocated unless there is no other solution. Bearing in mind any decent power supply should make splitters pretty much un-necessary anyway, things were explained when the computer was powered on and the words "Advent" came across the screen. Yes I'd want to hide its origins too :)

Advent machines are sold through the Dixon Store Group range, namely PC World, Currys and Aldi are fond of selling them. The fact of the matter is they are cheap pieces of crap that people buy for £200 and then try to play World Of Warcraft on them with on-board graphics, then baulk when told the machine is not upgradable because it has no graphics expansion slot as it was cheap.