Friend wants to upgrade but not sure which parts

RageSaul

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Hi, so my friend has a terrible computer right now but wants to start upgrading it to play games.

His current choice is either a GPU upgrade or Motherboard + CPU upgrade. His GPU is a GeForce 8600 gt and his CPU is a Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 (2.2GHz)

He needs to buy another motherboard as well since he wants to upgrade his CPU to an AMD one plus the RAM is DDR2.

So which part should he upgrade first to get the best performance?

Thanks.
 

RageSaul

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Ok, so I take it he should buy the GPU first. His budget is about £185 so he can't really afford all of those high tech PC parts.

So he will buy the GPU and PSU with the money, I just want to find out what the best quality parts he can get for £185.

Thanks.