As you all know I know nothing about computers. I went into the computer shop today to buy the parts for my computer and the associate that helped me turned out to be a dud.
I picked up the right Shuttle (looks lovely) computer, but he gave me an old AMD cpu while the board can only take the AMD 64+ ones.

So I can't use the new computer until boxing day. He also gave me the wrong ram...I asked for OCZ dual channel kit for 1 gig, but he gave me the 'value' line so it's not dual channel.
Basically everything went wrong....and no stores are open.