Upgrade time

[JimAroo]

Hello,

After using this PC for 2/3 years I've decided it's time to upgrade, I've came to the decision that i should try the C2D, I've always been an AMD man.. but I'm willing to give the C2D chip ago.

Heres the PC that i have picked (Comments greatly appreciated) My Budget is £500

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - £125.71
Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard - £82.24
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit - £64.61
Tagan TG580-U15 580W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent PSU - £82.24 inc VAT
Samsung SH-S203BEBN 20x20 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial - £19.96
Samsung SpinPoint T HD160HJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM - £32.89
Thermaltake VA7000BWA Shark Aluminium Full Tower - £82.24

Which comes to - £489.89

Thats all i need, i don't need a Graphics card as i have a Geforce BFG 7950 512mb, which is plenty enough for the games i play now, i am planning on upgrading to an 8800 or something along those lines at a later date.

My targets for this PC is to play games on high settings games like.. BF2, CSS, BF2142.

 

[JimAroo]

Welcome to the forums, that all looks pretty good to me, no obvious improvements within the budget. I'm not 100% sure about how good the case is for cooling so you may wish to have a look in the Case Central sub-forum to see if there are any further comments on it - unfortunately search is out of commission for the moment though.

Thank you for the welcome, I have already taken a look at the reviews on the case, people say that it's a nice case for keeping things cool, but i never thought of looking at case central, thanks again for the help.