sub £600 Gaming Base Unit Spec?

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I haven't upgraded my current PC in over 4 year, my old ATI 9800pro just went pop, so I'm using it as an excuse to get a new unit :)

Now seeing as I've not really looked at components for the last 4 years, I am kinda out of touch with what's hot and what not, so I could use a little help. My current pc will have a new cheepy graphics card installed for the misses to browse the internet on, leaving me with a system I can use in peace.

What I use the PC for:
MMO gaming mainly, occassional single player.

What I'm looking for:
Some degree of Future Proofing.
C2D CPU, initially running at stock, will overclock later.
2-4GB of memory.
Reasonibly good graphics card.

Now I've quickly come up with the following spec, but I'm sure it could use some tweaking:

Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS II Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black £49.99 (£58.74)

OcUK GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £111.99 (£131.59)

Samsung SH-S203NBEBN 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99 (£19.96)

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £59.99 (£70.49)

Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £104.99
(£123.36)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3250410AS) £38.99 (£45.81)

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Reaper HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2RPR800C44GK) £59.99 (£70.49)

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £64.99
(£76.36)

Sub Total : £507.92
Shipping : £10.95
VAT : £90.80
Total : £609.67

Ok, so it's "slightly" over the £600 mark, but I'm just wondering it anyone could offer any advice on the selection of components/alterations.
 
have a look at the gskill pc8000, £2/3 over the ocz but gives you more leeway on the overclock when you get round to it.

and would be worth thnking of an after market cooler when you decide to overclock.

aside from that looks very nice.
 
mp260767 said:
have a look at the gskill pc8000, £2/3 over the ocz but gives you more leeway on the overclock when you get round to it.
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Ok thank you :)

mp260767 said:
and would be worth thnking of an after market cooler when you decide to overclock.
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When I get around to OC'ing I'll be going the usual route of better fan+compound


neocon said:
Gigabyte p31 is cheaper
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I'll have a peek at that.

neocon said:
2gb of ram for xp
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I thought Windows XP pro supported 1-2 cpus or 1 dual core cpu with 2gb of memory per "core"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555223&SD=tech
Here's a list of how much RAM the various Windows versions and editions support (as of Nov 2004):

Windows NT 4.0: 4 GB
Windows 2000 Professional: 4 GB
Windows 2000 Standard Server: 4 GB
Windows 2000 Advanced Server: 8GB
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server: 32GB
Windows XP Professional: 4 GB
Windows Server 2003 Web Edition: 2 GB
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition: 4 GB
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition: 32 GB
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition: 64 GB
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neocon said:
get an antec case with psu included, will be much cheaper
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I'll have a look at those too.


Thanks for all the input so far :)
 
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