Well got myself up and running (sort of) after a day of hard work and I really learnt a lot :thumbsup:

The HP case wasnt big enough to hold the monster 9800GTX ! so I spent the day transferring all the components into my old case lol - I practically rebuilt the system from scratch and if i had known it were that easy i would have just built from parts anyway!

didnt have enough sata power cables to fit the 2 extra HDDs , and ebuyer forgot to send the CPU fan, so more to do tomorrow .

Only just got round to installing antivirus & firewalls etc by 1am so havent had a chance to check out the new gpu yet, loving having dual monitors though (and i was only looking at the hp desktop images)

So a little more hardware fitting tomorrow , followed by the installation of WoW & TBC and the patching

Then setting up keyclone

And Re designing my UI

It's going to take forever - sometime in June I may actually get to start playing wow again!

Cheers for your advice Wilbur, and as far as my gimping myself goes - toms hardware reckons the E8400 core 2 i got will outperform the Q6600 (non clocked) on most applications, although maybe a quad would have been better for 5 x wow (my pc isnt just for wow though , honest, no really, :whistling: ).

Anyhow I am set now for at least a couple of years hardware wise so if the processor starts to feel restrictive a Quad Extreme will slot into the system nice and easy once the prices come down to a reasonable level , which may work out better than getting a Q6600 now and trying to make it last 3 or 4 years

Cheers again for your help - this thread can now be locked :thumbsup: