[silverbmwz3]

I've always found it was as cheap to buy a new PC than replace all the bits that needed replacing with the relatively bleeding edge stuff I like to buy (not quite the latest and best but when I replace I buy in the top 25% or so of capabilities at that time), particularly if you want "better" monitor and the architecture as a whole changes requiring new motherboard etc.... As an example Dell are currently selling a nice looking cor 2 duo with 19" flatscreen for £279 plus VAT. It is fun though, we recently b*****ardised a NAS at work to get 4 hard disks then bought the bits for a few hundred quid to make a PC based NAS with 1.6TB of storage. Was very satisfying. Around the same time someone's power supply went on their PC and we diagnosed and replaced it. Despite being in IT I hadn't done much PC hardware stuff before that, and I enjoyed it.