Spec me a gaming machine - £600

[OneTime]

Hi,

Looking to purchase a gaming machine. Got £600 to play with for the tower.
Already got a 20inch monitor and accessories.

Ideally, if I could get i5/AM3, for the same money, and see an improvement over the dual core spec below I'd be happy.

What I came up with so far:
Would like to keep the Antec 300. Nice, plain and simple case



Thanks.

 

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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £198.98
(£173.03) £198.98
(£173.03)
AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £97.99
(£85.21) £97.99
(£85.21)
Asus M4A79XTD Evo (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £83.00
(£72.17) £83.00
(£72.17)
Patriot G Series AMD 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-10666 1333MHz Dual Channel (PGS34G1333LLKA) £70.99
(£61.73) £70.99
(£61.73)
Be Quiet! Straight Power 650W ATX2.2 SLi Compliant Power Supply £66.99
(£58.25) £66.99
(£58.25)
NZXT BETA Classic Series Case - Black (No PSU) £39.99
(£34.77) £39.99
(£34.77)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £37.98
(£33.03) £37.98
(£33.03)
Sony Optiarc AD-7241S 24x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe Optical Drive (Black) - OEM £18.99
(£16.51) £18.99
(£16.51)
Coolermaster Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM3/775/1156) £13.98
(£12.16) £13.98
(£12.16)
Sub Total : £546.86
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £83.90
Total : £643.26

 

[marley82]

It's worth stretching tot he 5850 is you can. other than that looks a nice setup.

 

[OneTime]

It's mainly for CSS...which is processor intensive. Obviously will be playing a few other games like football manager and Call of duty etc. £200 for the GPU seems a bit much over the top compared to what is being spent on the other components.