Hardware Upgrades ???

[crimson_bullet]

Hi guys looking to upgrade my system i have about £550-£575 the things that i need are:

DVD RW drive
CPU
GFX
HSF
HDD
Mobo

I would like to overclock this new system because i have read up on it and would like to have a go at it.

Thanks

 

[mp260767]

what do you use the system for ?

do you need a lot of disk storage ?

EDIT:

Took it to be a gaming pc, included a medium size hard disk, could swap the tracer 8500 for 6400 if you're not going too clock the hell out of the wolfdale:

BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £154.99 (£182.11)

Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £72.99 (£85.76)

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £124.99 (£146.86)

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) £14.99 (£17.61)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3250410AS) £38.99 (£45.81)

Samsung SH-S203D 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99 (£17.61)

Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AL1065) £54.99 (£64.61)
Sub Total : £476.93
Shipping : £8.95
VAT : £85.03
Total : £570.91

 

[Morrey360]

Mainly going to use my pc for cinema 4D and Photoshop so i think a good cpu will be needed and i will also like to play games.

 

[mp260767]

spec listed before should do the job then.

 

[Morrey360]

i would like to get a q6600 because of cinema 4d is power hungry any other ideas guys

 

[bikes]

You can certainly get rid of the Crucial memory and use

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £34.99 (£41.11)

 

[Morrey360]

You can certainly get rid of the Crucial memory and use

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £34.99 (£41.11)

yeah thats what ram i have. I bought it when it was on special offer (£25) so i dont need the RAM in the spec anymore.