Hey, im building a new system and was just wondering if the build I have come up with is a decent one.

My budget is around £900 and I am hoping to end up with a solid gaming build. In terms of performance idealy I would like to be able to play crysis on fairly high settings, but I realise £900 is not a huge budget.

Please note I will be using the parts as they come and I have no desire to overclock, I also intend to stay with one card, so the restrictions of not have SLI or overclocking on the mobo is not one that concerns me.

Heres the build:

CPU
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141516 - Core 2 E8500

FAN
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139799 - Asus Silent Knight II

MOBO
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141245 - DP35DP

GFX
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148017 - XFX GTX 260

RAM
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130429 - 2x2G Corshair

PSU
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/134695 - Coolermaster 620W

HD
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143288 - 1TB SpinPoint

DVD
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/140653 - Pioneer DVD±RW Black

Case
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143852 - Antec 1200

I want to get as much bang for my buck as possible so any ideas/feed back would be really appreciated,

Thanks for your time! :)

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Ahm.. it's almost perfect, the only things you can change is the motherboard, try one with the P43 chipset, costs almost the same but have PCI-Express 2.0, it can make a difference for the GTX 260.

And the HD you can buy two 500 GB drives and use them in RAID system, but that's not critical, just a suggestion. :)

Very nice monster, I mean, PC :D

Ive had a few other suggestions and come up with a 2nd draft for the system, quite a few changes and actually a fair bit cheaper - any thoughts?

Case - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/118268 - Antec 900
CPU - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139971 - Core 2 E8400
FAN - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139799 - Scythe Ninja II
MOBO - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/140205 - MSI P35 Neo2-FR iP35
GFX - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147243 - HD 4870
HD - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143288 - 750GB SpinPoint
DVD - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/140653 - Pioneer DVD±RW Black
RAM - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130429 - 2x2G Corsair
PSU - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/114941 - Corsair 620W

That's very good too, but I preffer a mobo like these:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148024
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145686

PCI-E 2.0, you'll use a very powerfull VGA, the PCI-E 1.1 can limit the card performance.

I like your first configuration. Seems nice.

Cheers,
Gabriel.