Looking to upgrade is this spec any good?

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It's been a while since i've bought hardware and i'm thinking it may be time to upgrade my system. I'm having problems with it and it's running slow no matter how many formats i do.

I have a 5 year old Enermax psu 350w and a Radeon 64meg graphics card.
A 3 year old AMD 3200+ 64 and 1 gig or ram and a Abit kv8-max raid board

I play the odd games would like to play BF2 but i can't run it.
Do video stuff and surf and download.

Gigabyte GA_965P_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-062-GI) £104.99 £104.99

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM (CP-135-IN) £107.99 £107.99

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB5300DC) (MY-034-GL) £139.99 £139.99

HIS ATI Radeon X1650 Pro ICEQ Turbo 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (RX1650P-256ICEQT) (GX-062-HT) £79.99 £79.99

Enermax Liberty 500W ELT500AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-025-EN) £61.99 £61.99

Subtotal £494.95
VAT £86.62
Total £581.57

I was only looking to spend £500 but i thought this looked a pretty good upgrade.

I'm not 100% sure about the motherboard i've always had abit and was looking at this one
Abit AB9 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-105-AB)

I'm also sure i seen a motherboard that would pretty much shutdown if you was just downloading throughout the night but i'm begining to think i've dreamt that as i can't seem to find it?



Any input would be great please.

Thanks
 
The CPU is OEM so you will need an aftermarket cooler and I think the 7600gt would be better than the X1650 Pro(although I haven't actually looked into it) but other than that it should be a nice upgrade.

It depends what you are downloading but many pieces of software come with an auto switch-off function when they are done, I've not heard of any motherboards with that feature though. :)
 
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