Hi Guys

Looking to upgrade me PC......machine is mainly used to play games & I need to upgrade in order to play the likes of GTR2, Half Like 2, Far Cry, Call of Juarez, Fear etc at the highest settings.

I have around £400 to spend & guess I need a new Processor, Motherboard & Graphics Card (& more Ram).

This is what I currently have....what do you guys reckon I need.

Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 2400 MHz (18 x 133)
Motherboard Name ECS L4S8A2 (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 CNR, 3 DIMM, Audio)
Motherboard Chipset SiS 648
System Memory 768 MB (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (11/20/02)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display:
Video Adapter RADEON 9600 SERIES - Secondary (256 MB)
Video Adapter RADEON 9600 SERIES (256 MB)
3D Accelerator ATI Radeon 9600 XT (RV360)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Creative SB Live! 5.1 Sound Card

Yep, you need a new CPU, new motherboard, new RAM (not more PC2700), new video card, & quite possibly a new power supply. Basically, you'd be looking at a complete rebuild.

2700€ was the money I spent for my new config (see siggy). I upgraded for the same reason as yours, and get entire satisfaction now.
Upgrade your graphic card to a real one is your priority. You can still find good AGP card like nVidia 6800 series for about 250€
and maybe get a bigger P4 that is now given for about nothing.
Thus you could spend the remaining from your 400£ to increase your ram to 1 GB.

GigaByte 3D Aurora
Asus P5WDHDeluxe
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
2GB DDR2 Twin2X 800MHz
nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX

jams a smart guy.. but he might not aprreciate people on a tight budget.. btw i built my ASRock 775 Dual/VSTA mobo with PD 805 and i am sorta kicking myself, but it is a big step up from my last rig.