Gaming Build Advice Please

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My friend wants to get into PC gaming, so now he wants me to build him a PC! xD

The max budget is £700 P&P Included(Monitor,Keyboard&Mouse aswell). Anything cheaper would be awesome. He wants to be able to play games like Blackops, APB(if it ever gets released again), Bioshock and just general games. Nothing too fancy like Crysis on highest settings. But wants reasonably good graphics on most games.

Also it will be used for 3D Modelling and that, which isn't much a strain as gaming but, might be important to tell you guys aswell.

So far I've came up with this, and cutback on as many things as I know I can do without losing too much performance:

BenQ G2222HDL 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black

XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599)

Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3

Corsair CX 500W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-500CXUK]

AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 250 3.00GHz (Socket AM3)

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz)

Asus TA-D21 Midi Tower Case - Black

Western Digital RE2 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3)

Raptor Gaming LM2 Optical Gaming Mouse

Logitech S-150 2.0 USB Speaker System - OEMSamsung SH-D163C/BEBE

SATA 16x DVD-ROM (Black)

Blaze K3064 Multimedia Keyboard - Black

£697 Total.

:]

Im sure I've probably gone a bit overboard for what he needs, but that's why Im checking with you guys :D
 
You can do much better than that.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £117.49
(£99.99) £117.49
(£99.99)
Iiyama ProLite E2208HDD 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £110.44
(£93.99) £110.44
(£93.99)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £105.74
(£89.99) £105.74
(£89.99)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £82.24
(£69.99) £82.24
(£69.99)
Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £62.99
(£53.61) £62.99
(£53.61)
Asus M4A78LT-M 760G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £48.99
(£41.69) £48.99
(£41.69)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £29.99
(£25.52) £29.99
(£25.52)
Kworld Dark Pyramid D8 2.1 Speaker £24.99
(£21.27) £24.99
(£21.27)
Samsung SH-S223L/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.09
(£11.99) £14.09
(£11.99)
Logitech K200 Media Keyboard (920-002733) £11.99
(£10.20) £11.99
(£10.20)
Microsoft Ready Basic Optical Mouse Black - Retail (3EG-00003) £9.99
(£8.50) £9.99
(£8.50)
Sub Total : £560.77
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £100.54
Total : £675.06

Included a GTX460 which is much faster than a 5770 - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/172?vs=156

A PhenomII X4 955BE which will eat a dual core 250 - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/121?vs=88
 
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