RichWilco

That's great, thanks for all the help. It seems a bit strange that Cougar would list a processor and not state how many cores it has. Again, thanks everyone. This has helped me a great deal.

This is the review I mentioned: If the one on Cougar is a single core, would the slower speed tri-core I mentioned in my first post be a better buy do you think? To run games like the ones I mentioned above I mean.

Alrighty, I'll do that thanks. Off the top of my head, I would like to run games like 'Empire: Total War' 'W40k: Dawn of War 2' and 'Half Life 2'. It would be mostly strategy games though really. There was another question I had as well: On the site, the most expensive AMD processor is a 'AMD PHENOM 2 955 3.2GHz AM2+' Is this a quad core or single core processor, for some reason all I can find on the net is a single review and it says in the description that it is quad core, but I thought that AMD quad processors have the 'X4' in their name? Oh and sorry for being a pain, but could someone tell me if this system would be easy to upgrade, or would I have to end up having to buy a completely new pc 2 or 3 years down the line if I made a bad choice now.

I've been on a website called Cougar Systems (based in the UK), and its one of those cool little sites that let you build a pc online and see how much it would cost. I put a system together on the following page of the Cougar Systems site: Cougar Systems - This is it: Processor = AMD Phenom II X3 (720) 2.8GHz 3x512KB L2 Cache AM3 RAM = 4GB Kingston DDR2 667 (2 x 2gb) Hard Disk = 400GB SATA Hard Drive Case = 3060 PLUS Black and Silver Midi Case Fan = Colors 550Watt Silent Upgrade Graphics Card = 1024MB 9600GSO PCI Express Nvidia DDR DVI Motherboard =MSI K9A2 NEO-F - 5200MTS DDR2 1066x4 AMD 780 chipset - intergrated Sound Card = Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 PCI 7.1 OS = 64 BIT Windows Vista Home Premiem (I have all necessary peripherals; keyboard, mouse, monitor etc, and was considering buying a few of the optional extras as well like a wireless network card and an internal card reader or multi-media connect bay) Is it any good as a gaming pc do you think? I would like to run all the latest games, and obviously in the future I want to be able to upgrade it at some point. Its just that I don't have much experience when it comes to building computers. My budget is around £600 - £650. I suppose I would just like to know your opinions on my choices. Did I choose the right motherboard? I have got the right kind of RAM? Would I benefit from one of the more expensive processors? etc I wanted to use Cougar because I have had a very good experience with them in the past. Thanks very much for your time, and I appreciate any help you can give me.