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My girlfriends laptop has died 
So she's looking at getting a desktop.
She loves Counter-Strike: Source and really wants to play Crysis. She's not expecting full graphic settings and doesn't have a lot of money to spend. £500 would be awesome but it's more like ~£600.
The specs I've pieced together which have come in at *just* under £600 are;
Mobo: Gigabyte P35 DS4
RAM: 2GB CL4 OCZ PC26400 DDR2
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4600
PSU: Corsair HX 520W
Hard Drive: 160GB Seagate 7200RPM/8MB Cache
Optical: Lite-on DVDRW
GFX: Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB
Monitor: 19" Widescreen with DVI, not sure which exactly, yet.
Plus a cheap case and keyboard and speakers/mouse used to connect to the laptop so she's got that already.
Any suggestions? Worth getting the DS3 instead to save money and getting a better GFX card? That CPU ok in that motherboard?
So she's looking at getting a desktop.She loves Counter-Strike: Source and really wants to play Crysis. She's not expecting full graphic settings and doesn't have a lot of money to spend. £500 would be awesome but it's more like ~£600.
The specs I've pieced together which have come in at *just* under £600 are;
Mobo: Gigabyte P35 DS4
RAM: 2GB CL4 OCZ PC26400 DDR2
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4600
PSU: Corsair HX 520W
Hard Drive: 160GB Seagate 7200RPM/8MB Cache
Optical: Lite-on DVDRW
GFX: Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB
Monitor: 19" Widescreen with DVI, not sure which exactly, yet.
Plus a cheap case and keyboard and speakers/mouse used to connect to the laptop so she's got that already.
Any suggestions? Worth getting the DS3 instead to save money and getting a better GFX card? That CPU ok in that motherboard?
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