Out of the loop for a while!

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Hi all,

I've been out of the PC loop for a while, I used to post on here reasonably often but haven't done for about a year or more.

Anyway, I'm going to have about £800 - £1000 to spend on upgrading my PC at home, I'm going to be playing games on it, hopefully all the latest ones.

Presently I have a Centurion case, which I would be willing to keep. A Sony 17" TFT max. res of 1280 x 1024. I have 5.1 speakers and a Logitech MX1000 mouse, my keyboard is also ok at the moment!!

I basically need:

Graphics Card - Haven't a clue with these, they seem to change that often!
Hard Drive - Only ever used IDE but guessing that SATA is the main format now. (looking for about a 250gig)
DVD Drive
Sound Card
RAM - Hoping to get 2gb
Probably need a new power supply aswell to be on the safe side!

Could someone please spec me!!

Thanks in advance!!

 

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Forgot to add, it would be in my room and probably be left on overnight, so noise is a consideration!!

 

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Thats probably not a bad shout, would save me some pennies aswell

 

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I've tried overclocking previously and not had any results that have made it worth while, if I could get an extra Ghz out of the CPU then I would probably do it, as long as I could keep it cool!!

 

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Looks pretty sound to me, was mainly after a guide proce so about 800-1000 beans should sort me out!

Thanks