Need Help - £800 Spec

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I'm ordering parts to build my brother a new 'puter for about £800 this weekend. The budget had to include a monitor and the OS. Would greatly appreciate any assistance!
 
This is what I have so far. Need to reduce the price a bit and try to fit a monitor in (though it's possible he'll keep his old one).

CP-135-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM (CP-135-IN)
£97.99 £97.99
HS-017-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) (HS-017-AR)
£12.99 £12.99
MB-061-GI Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-061-GI)
£91.99 £91.99
MY-072-OC OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) (MY-072-OC)
£159.99 £159.99
GX-053-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-CO)
£139.99 £139.99
HD-093-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160GB ST3160811AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-093-SE)
£35.99 £35.99
CA-012-AN Antec Super LANBOY Aluminum Super Mini Tower Case - No PSU (CA-012-AN)
£29.99 £29.99
CD-039-PO Pioneer DVR-111DSV 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - (Silver) OEM (CD-039-PO)
£21.99 £21.99
CA-016-OC OCZ ModStream 450w ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-016-OC)
£44.99 £44.99
OS-001-MS Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (N09-01528) (OS-001-MS)
£52.99 £52.99
Subtotal £688.90
VAT £120.56
Total £809.46
 
you could get just the 1g ram instead of 2g and then upgrade later?

go with case such as the antec slk3000b which comes with a psu?

also if you will not be overclocking you could get the asrock mobo? as i believe its half the price of your chosen mobo?
 
how big?

what game you wanna res at?

whats ** budget for the monitor?

if you go to the monitor section there are some "monitor experts" who will spec u a bang for buck one to go with that system....

just make sure you will be able to play at the screen res on max settings for most if not all games...
 
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