£500 budget

[moochoo]

I am totally out of the loop hardware wise nowadays so im looking for some real help here!

one of the guys from work has a £500 budget all he needs is the computer he already has TFT/mouse/keyboard/speakers and all that jazz.

His main usage will be the internet, word processing and gaming. although he says he doesnt do high end gaming just the odd one here and there.

 

[semi-pro waster]

There is a little bit of room left in the budget but I'd probably be suggesting something along these lines, maybe with an aftermarket cooler to take it up to £500 or so.

CA-035-AN Antec Performance TX1088AMG Metallic Grey Tower Case - 480w Truepower PSU (CA-035-AN)
£37.99 £37.99
MB-004-AK Asrock Conroe945G-DVI (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-004-AK)
£45.99 £45.99
CP-126-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-126-IN)
£114.99 £114.99
MY-030-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB5300DC) (MY-030-GL)
£74.99 £74.99
CD-042-NE NEC AD5170 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-042-NE)
£18.99 £18.99
HD-024-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD160JJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-024-SA)
£35.99 £35.99
GX-025-BG BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7600 GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-025-BG)
£74.99 £74.99
Subtotal £403.93
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £9.95
VAT £72.43
Total £486.31