Spec me a pc, £400 budget!

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Basically I need to upgrade my pc, becasue i want to buy a new soundcard, but as I only have a shuttle I dont have enough available pci slots. Its also abit cramped in the case, and I can only have external secondary drives.

I already have:
RAM, Monitor, Keyboard/Mouse etc and Speakers (might upgrade them at a later date though) I have a graphics card, although Im assuming with a new motherboard i wont be able to use an agp card. I play games, Im not a hardcore gamer, but like to play hl2, sims2, san andreas far cry etc, so a decent one would be good although not too overly priced!
I have an 80gb hd, and an 80gb external hd already, but would i need an sata hd?

Im looking to spend £400, i also will need to buy xp home edition, and a version of microsoft works (the cheapest one with word and outlook!)

Knock yer selves out :)
 
semi-pro waster said:
Do you actually mean Outlook as in the full program or just Outlook Express? As far as I am aware Outlook is only available with a full copy of Office XP Pro or Office 2003 which would really mess up the budget.

What graphics card do you currently have? There is a dual AGP/PCI-E motherboard in the ASRock SATA Dual II which comes in at ~£50.

I meant outlook express! sorry, it comes in that cheapo microsoft works package.
Atm i have an NVIDIA geforce4 ti 4200 agp x 8, quite an old second hand one!
 
Open Office? Can that work with Word files? etc sounds like it coud be an option, although i dont mind spending 40 quid on word really, considering how much i will be spending hehe
 
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