The 6600 is a fantastic processor that held its £200 price for months.
In the last few weeks you can now get it for around £140 - £150 and the E6700 has come down to almost take its price. So, depending on when you decided your budget could mean either you spend less money or could get more power for the same money...??...........
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We will pay the price but we will not count the cost..
RE: Recommend new Gaming PC specs 
as above, tbh unless your overclocking get mid range ram, the other stuff is overpriced & as with all pc stuff theres always something that`ll replace it 5 mins after you`ve bought it :)
Seagate or Samsung for the drives not WD, preferably Samsung
aargh,,,,,, sorry, but for my two penneth worth WD (western digital) are amongst the most reliable drives on the market, i`m still running a 200gig ide WD drive & after about 4 years of heavy abuse it`s still going strong & near silent (& thats in my pc thats running 24/7) i also have a 230gig SATA WD drive thats also been hassle free, but, i do also like the seagate drives, i have a seagate baracuda 300gig drive thats been no problem in the 2 years it`s been running, & i also used to have a samsung spinright drive, but i swapped it out becuase it seemed to have a continuous "hum" BUT i have to say this was probably just that particular drive, because the sammy spinrights are by all account very quite in normal operation...
i`ve had a few asus boards, and i`d say they are generally very good, only had 2 duffers (one a p4 mobo the other a socket A) i`m currently running an abit AB9-Pro & i`ve found it to be superb, the main + point for me is that it has 9 sata 2 connecters, so adding new drives is a doddle, incidentaly my previouse board was an asus dual pci-e board, but tbh running two gfx cards isn`t the booster you may think, imo, get a single gfx card but go higher in spec, rather than having 2 mid range running in tandem, as for dvd writers, i have a sata writer, it was £22 from scan, it`s a samsung & it`s the most reliable drive i`ve had yet, although i also use nec as well & they are also excellent (but i believe sony own them now, so that may change)
as for an eco friendly psu, don`t bother, given the spec you want go for the highest wattage you can afford, don`t do it on the cheap, but also imo don`t go to high, i don`t see the point in paying £100+ for a psu when a well made one can be bought for less than £50, go for a minimum 650-to-700 watt, EZcool & Atrix both do very well priced high quality models in that range :)
hope this helps...
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