PC Upgrades Query

[Deiwos]

Hi folks, I've been reading the forums a lot lately, and now I have a reasonable amount of cash, I'm looking to upgrade my system.

About 4 months ago I bought a new gfx card (7900Gt), new PSU (Tagan 500W) and a new case (Antec P180). I used what I had of my old system (P4 3.2ghz, some crappy Mobo, 1GB PC3200 RAM (again crappy), a 250GB HD) with this new stuff just to tide me over until I had some more money. Now I've got the money, I'm looking to pretty much revamp the whole system, apart from PSU+Gfx card.
I've got around £500-600 to spend on it, so I was wondering what you guys thought?

I was thinking something along the lines of an E6600, a new mobo and new RAM. All of which I'm open to suggestions for, as I'm pretty behind on what to buy etc right now.

Cheers, Tom.

 

[semi-pro waster]

Welcome to the forums, since you have everything bar the motherboard, CPU and Ram this is what I'd suggest. You can also get a new hard drive at the same time because there is space in the budget if you need to.

Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £84.99
(£99.86) £84.99
(£99.86)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £154.99
(£182.11) £154.99
(£182.11)
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler £28.99
(£34.06) £28.99
(£34.06)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £182.99
(£215.01) £182.99
(£215.01)
Sub Total : £451.96
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 : £80.66
Total : £541.57

 

[Deiwos]

Thanks for the swift response!

Thats looks about spot on for the money I have and spec I'm looking for. Whats the OCing potential of those bits, since I'm looking to get into some OCing myself.

 

[Ste99]

I've heard the e6600 is very overclockable - speeds of over 3ghz on air cooling?, and i read on the forums that the geil ram can be oc'ed from 800mhz to 1000mhz