£500 Upgrade. Please Help

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Got £500 to upgrade my 3 year old rig.

Items needed:

- GPU
must be fanless and capable of HDTV and have DVI inputs

- CPU
Cheap Core2Duo. Must run cool

- CPU Heatsink
must be good and quiet. Ideally one which has a fan running under 1000rpm

- DDR2
must be 1gb

- PSU
not too expensive. Quiet operation please

- Motherboard
must have plenty of SATA ports. Atleast 1xIDE. Descent allround m/b

Will be reusing:

Akasa Eclipse 62 Case
M-Audio 5.1 Revo Soundcard
120gb SATA Maxtor HDD
300Gb SATA Maxtor HDD
Samsung SATA DVDRW
Case Fans
19" LG TFT


PC Will be used for surfing, MS Office, listening to music, watching the odd film, itunes, ripping CD/DVD......Nothing intensive at all. Want it to be quiet as possible.

Budget is £500 MAX! But if you can do it cheaper its better.

Help me out guys.
 
Easy...

Asus ATI Radeon EAH2400 Pro HTP Silent 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
(£41.11)

Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard
(£93.99)

OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit
(£64.61)

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)
(£64.61)

Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail
(£58.74)

Noctua NF-S12 800RPM 120mm Silent Case Fan - 3 Pin
(£14.09)

Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme (Socket AM2/LGA775) Heatsink
(£37.59)

Total : £385.26
 
How about this:

Scythe Ninja Plus Rev.B Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA755)
£29.36

Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard
(£96.34)

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400DC)
£52.86

Samsung SpinPoint P HD080HJ 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM
£28.19

Asus GeForce EN7300GT-HTD Silent 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
£41.11

Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail
(£61.09)

Seasonic M12 Modular 500W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply
(£88.11)

SUBTOTAL: 397.09
P&P: £9.99

TOTAL = £407.08
 
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