Spec me £650 to £700

[Scottie2004]

Hi I'm looking for a new pc for between £650 to £700,

I'm looking for a new rig including monitor, speakers and keyboard combo. I'm mainly going to be using it for programming and games. One thing to mention is that I'm looking to purchase a decent graphics card in the next month outwith the pc purchase but would like a stopgap card for the moment which will play BF2 and Quake 4 decently. Another point to mention is that I get any version of Windows free through my works MS partnership so I don't need an OS included.

One question, am I better with a 17" with better quality or a larger 19" with average quality? Is there much difference between the price ranges with regards to the actual image quality?

As always, any help is greatly appreciated in advance.
Thanks.

PS. Is there any reason I should hold off at the moment? Price drops anticipated for anything?

 

[Scottie2004]

Something like the second spec is quite acceptable, like I said however, the graphics card isn't a priority just now. I was thinking more along the lines of the 7600 GS for approx £80 until next month or two when I will have £200 for the graphics card alone.

 

[Scottie2004]

Ok I've decided to buy the graphics card at the same time. Can someone review the following spec and see if its decent, worried that I'm spending more for AM2 but will it keep my upgrade path more open?

CPU AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz (Socket AM2) £88.07
Motherboard Asus M2NPV-VM DDR2 PCI-e £70.44
Memory GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 £109.95
Graphics Card Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB £164.44
Hard Drive Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB £52.29
DVD Drive NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter £21.95
Keyboard and Mouse Logitech UltraX™ Media Desktop £35.19
Speakers JBL Creature II 2.1 Speakers £55.17
Case and PSU Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case £66.92
Monitor Acer AL1916WS 19" Widescreen £186.82

Total £796.07

Also, is there a better dual core route for the £800?