New Build - £600 Budget

[Kona*]

Just before christmas I was toying with the idea of building a new PC but at the time I didnt have enough cash. Well... I still dont have enough cash but the time has come to upgrade

At the moment I have:

Dell Optiplex GX620 (free from work)
3.2GHz Pentium 4
1.5GHz Generic Ram
250GB Seagate HDD
80GB Seagate HDD
SoundBlaster Audigy 4
GeForce 7800GT Extreme Edition
Tagan 480W PSU (with a bit of modding I managed to get this inside the Optiplex case )

Anyway, I would like to go back to AMD if at all possible with my budget (I know the usual e6300/ds3/geil combo is good value but I am a bit of an AMD fanboy...) - I would also like to get an ATI graphics card, I have always been an nVidia kinda guy but since AMD bought out ATI - why the hell not give ATI a try

So... for £600, what can I get? All suggestions are welcome! (Even e6300/ds3/geil specs )

Thanks,

Craig

 

[semi-pro waster]

The reason for the Conroe etc specifications is that AMD simply isn't competing well at present in the price/performance ratio but I'm sure something could be specified that was X2 AM2 based if you wanted.

Is your Tagan ATX 2.0 compliant? Just to work out what parts can be re-used.

//edit, gotta say you probably picked the worst possible time to decide you didn't like the companies with the best products on the market.

This might be suitable though, the motherboard is based on the 590 chipset which should be about the best overclocking motherboard you can get since to get Nvidia's approval they have to leave in certain standard overclocking options if memory serves. The rest are pretty solid parts with a very good cooler if you want to try overclocking.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+ 2.40GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £119.99
(£140.99) £119.99
(£140.99)
Gigabyte GA_M59SLi-S5 nForce 590 (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £104.99
(£123.36) £104.99
(£123.36)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £147.99
(£173.89) £147.99
(£173.89)
Scythe Ninja Plus Rev.B Heatpipe CPU Cooler (478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA755) £32.99
(£38.76) £32.99
(£38.76)
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £107.99
(£126.89) £107.99
(£126.89)
Sub Total : £513.95
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.95
Vat : £91.51
Total : £614.41