Spec me! sub £350 upgrade

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I've been out of the hardware game for a while but my desktop system just went pop.

I know that the PSU is fine, I already have a case and a optical drive so what I'm looking for component wise is CPU/MoBo/GFX/Ram/HDD

I have a Dell M1730 Laptop that I use for gaming at the moment so this doesn't have to be blindingly fast (EvE online at 1920x1200 would be nice).

HDD space is not an issue, I use NAS for most of my needs, enough space for OS and programs is fine.

I don't really want to spend £350, I can think of other uses but I also don't want to be spending more money a few months down the line having to upgrade the whole system again.

I plan to run Windows7 and a x64 system would be preferable.

Suggestions please? :D
 
This little set up would probably do you then, comes to £220.95, uses an integrated gfx card which if you're not gaming will be fine for everything else, it has a PCI-E slot if you wanted to add a card later to turn it into a gaming machine too.

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Asus M4A785TD-M Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £67.99 (£59.12)
AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 240 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £45.99 (£39.99)
Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD3200AAKS) £35.98 (£31.29)
 
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