Hi thanks for the replies.

I don't feel very confident about building my own system from scratch but it would be possible for me to buy all the componenets seperatly and give them to my cousin to assemble. Maybe I would feel comfortable with it if there was a good book on the market that I could buy.

I already have all the software that I listed in my first post. The only software I will be buying with the computer will be an anit virus programme and Half Life 2. Even thought above I mentioned I would want to use my computer for gaming the editing/animation side of it is much more important.

I went to a shop today where they repaired my old computer (which had over 1000+ virus' on it!!!!!!!!!!!!) and asked them about a custom built pc that would mainly be used for computer editing and they told me a Pentium 4 would be a good option to have but I've been told by many people that Athlons are better. Are Athlons seen as being better for gamers or on a whole?

Also with the duel head graphics card, I would like to get a really great graphics card but I always have this thought in my head that because duel head graphics cards aren't that mainstream yet (in the sense that everybody has them as standard) that they wont be as high quality as other cards. Am I way off?

Thanks a lot for your help, and I'm sorry for bombing you nice people with questions :P

~Bryn~