Help convince me to spend £1000+

[otemu]

For awhile I have been having a ongoing war to upgrade my pc, even posting a spec me thread of my own awhile ago here even brought windows 7 and Street Fighter 4 for my new build and still yet to buy anything.

So what the drama about I hear you say, well few years ago I brought a gaming laptop:
2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7200;
1GB DDR2 RAM; 120GB hard drive;
256MB nVidia GeForce Go 7600 graphics card;

Currently it handles all the Design and Development applications I use (SQL Server, Eclipse, Flash, 3d Max, Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator etc) and it is decent when it comes to multitasking.

Seems to handle most of the games that I play maybe not all at full spec(Counter Strike Source, Warcraft 3, Half Life 2, Fear, Prey, Call to Juarez, Oblivion etc)

However I would love to play some of these next generation games at high spec, but every time am about to purchase I think why should I spend so much just to play the likes of Crysis or run Oblivion at full spec...........................

HELP convince me........................................

 

[otemu]

If you feel you are going to make good use of a new system then Buy it, Simples.

I definitely feel I make use of the system as it will improve on gaming, but like I said £1000+(need everything, monitor, keyboard, speakers etc) does seem expensive to play games, was hoping someine would throw something in the equation apart from the games improvement factor....................

 

[otemu]

Well this is what I was thinking of if I was to buy as shown below:

Was hoping to keep it more closer to the £1000 mark but ended up being £1500