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My system is starting to die. I'm not sure why. It has some sort of Athlon64 3000+ chip with 512 MB RAM and a ATI Radeon 9600 Pro graphics card. But things just aren't moving. Maybe porn is becoming more demanding, but who knows. However, there must be something scheming that old Billy Gates has installed in his Windows software. This machine is many times faster than the fastest servers 10 years ago, but it's struggling with Outlook and a few Internet Explorer windows.

Anyway, I'm vaguely thinking of upgrading, but only being a half-arsed nerd I don't know the current status of the hardware industry.

Going to that magical Tom's Hardware site, it looks like I need an Athlon 64 X2 4200 chip.

In terms of graphics a Geforce 7600 GT should do.

Being a lazy git, I've surfed the web and found a suitable Mobo/CPU bundle from Novatech for £280.82 here. And a graphics card will £92.83 here. That all comes to about £380. And a hard disk will be around £60 for 250GB.

So for £440 I should be able to get a pretty reasonable new system. But I can't help but think I'm leaving something out. Assuming I can re-use all my current bits and bobs, and use my old Windows XP CD to build the new PC (I'll be giving away any left over bits from my current PC), have I forgotten anything?