Friends upgrade spec

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My friend has a horribly outdated pc (1core at 1.66hhz, no graphic card, 80gb IDE hdd, and 1gb ram) and he plays game at the lowest settings possible with really low fps. He told me he has roughly £600 max to work with and doesn't know what to buy, i said I'd try and use the least amount as possible and came up with this:

Argon Extreme Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz @ 4.40GHz Overclocked Bundle

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

OCZ StealthXStream 2 500W Power Supply

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ)

Coolermaster Elite 334 Midi Case - Black

Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM

Total : £571.77

he doesn't need a OS as he got some cheap deal on windows 7 and i believe he recently brought a 22 inch his happy with out only needs the desktop.

Would the above work and run maybe not the latest, but 1 year old ish games at decent quality with good fps? Or is there any other spec ideas. Any help would be appreciated.

As far as i know he doesn't play any directx10 games let alone 11 so i don't think he needs the latest generation graphics (All i see him play is Dawn of War RTS games)
 
He should be able to keep this for a while too...



Went for that motherboard because of SATA 6Gb/s & USB 3.0
 
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