[Colinevan]

Another update now guys.

After much advice and reading and a few trips to microdirect iv reviewed the whole upgrade and have started the ball rolling.

Just purchased a new case
Haf 922 with window - quite rare for the bargain price of £73 delivered. These are normally around £100 with no window and are quite pleasing to the eye

I was going to go for either the smaller 912 or a coolermaster storm enforcer
This one
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Pr...-Plus---NO-PSU
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Pr...nforcer-Gaming

As i liked the window option, however they were slightly smaller which made me wonder if it will be big enough for the future. Went home and saw this and ordered

Std one here for ref
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Pr...22-Case-NO-PSU

If any one wants one, theyre on amazon at that price

Next step was to search for the psu.

Previous advice seemed to be not below 600w and a decent brand such as ocx, corsair etc.

Its my birthday next week (34 ha ha ) and pay day so next purchase is the psu.

Im torn between the corsair gs series or the the ocx modular as its neater and im happy to increase the power upto 700/800w and ideally around £80 so im open to advice really.

As mentioned when these components are built up, next stage is a second hand gtx260/280 or even a 460 now as they all range from £60 to £100.

Then for the learning part in me, its all too easy to just buy a new cpu and motherboard so im going to have a go at overclocking the 6600. Processor wise at the moment its fine, however with a nice breathable tower and decent psu , why not try and get it to 3ghz. The one downfall is that i deffo need another motherboard. AS my current one is ancient. As its old techology hopefully they should be cheap to pick up again any advice would be great.

Next stages would then be a new sd drive simply for operating system, another hd for storage (prob 1tb as they are below £100 ) as well as my current rather measly 350gb

Then lastly when it needs is new mobo and cpu. Reading up the bulldozer amd;s offer stupid speeds and are cheaper than a decent i5 or i7.

Thanks in advance for any help or info or advice. If anyone knows what sort of spec mobo i need, it would be greatly appreciated.

Ps - although the end result in theory is a brand new decent spec pc, doing it this way helps me understand more and allows me to do it bit by bit.