A few hardware questions.

[Majik]

Right here goes, Im putting together a cheap and cheerfull rig.

What I have in mind so far is;

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

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail £81.06

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £68.14

OcUK GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £176.24

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £72.84

First things first, I dont really have a budget but that said I don't need a stupidly good computer. The games I play I normally run on no higher than 1024x768 unless its a RTS then sometimes I jump to 1280x1024 the max my 17" TFT supports. I'm not bothered about running games on max settings either, medium settings and a steady reasonably high frame rate is all I require.

ET:QW
BF2
CSS

What kind of frames could I expect for those games on say 1024x768 mediumish settings?

The CPU is only a 2MB cache is it worth going up to the 4mb cache versions or not? Like I say I'm mainly a gamer oh and I'm running windows XP not Vista.

Last but not least would that PSU support the system easily enough?

Any recommended changes please let me know.

 

[Jaffa_Cake]

That would run all the mentioned games on max settings with reasonable FPS. If you want to bump it up a little more for another £40 you could bump up the ram to Cellshock PC6400/G. Skill HZ PC6400/Ballistix PC5300 and get a Tuniq Tower/Noctua and overclock the CPU and RAM to kingdom come.