bit the bullet & spent some money
£422 got me

ATHLON 1800XP+
ASUS A7V8X motherboard (8X AGP, 6 channel sound, gigabit LAN,
DDR400 capable, Firewire, USB2.0 etc etc)
80GB HDD (7200rpm)
64MB Geforce 4 MX440 + TV-Out
256MB DDR 266
DVD
56K modem
1.44MB Floppy Drive
upper range 350W 4 bay case
better keyboard & mouse
assembled

really pleased at the price, was going for less motherboard, case, etc & 40GB HDD @ £310 but decided to go for broke. Saved a bit as just put in DDR266 instead of DDR333 or 400. I'll wait unitl DDR400 sorts itself out, wait a bit longer until prices fall & then probably upgrade to it if perfomrance is there.
Currently most test are saying 400 no faster than 333 & even 266 to 333 only changes many speed scores from 1.40 to 1.42