£250 Upgrade Budget

[sprognak]

Old AGP (FX5600) P4 based system needs upgrading. Budget is circa £250.

It will be used for gaming (BF2142 etc) but only up to 1024x768.

Needs:

Graphics card
CPU
Motherboard
RAM
CPU Cooler
Case
PSU

Anyone care to put together a few sample idea's?

Here's what I was starting on:

Gigabyte GA M55S-S3 (£50)
1Gb Unbranded RAM (2x512) (£56)
256MB XFX 7600GT XT, PCI-E (£90)
AMD AM2 Athlon 64 3800+ Windsor Core, Dual Core 2GHz (£72)

*edit above is inc vat

Then I ran out of cash...

 

[semi-pro waster]

The budget doesn't offer many options, the below system is dual core, has 1gb of decent Ram and a solid case but no discrete graphics card however the onboard shouldn't be too bad for basic gaming.

Asrock Conroe945G-DVI (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £41.99
(£49.34) £41.99
(£49.34)
Intel Pentium 4 820 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 2.8GHz (800FSB) - Retail £57.99
(£68.14) £57.99
(£68.14)
Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU £42.99
(£50.51) £42.99
(£50.51)
OcUK 1GB (2x512MB) PC2-6400 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £60.99
(£71.66) £60.99
(£71.66)
Sub Total : £203.96
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95
Vat : £37.43
Total : £251.34