I am looking for a good gaming PC and something to run programs such as illustrator and photshop CS3 at the same time, this is because I am doing graphic design at college and I am looking to go to university doing a similar thing.

My budget will be around £1200 mark, I have found a PC that looks quite good to me, but I dont know alot about hardware so I thought it would be a good idea to ask you on here.

Here is the PC I found : http://www.dinopc.com/shop/pc/22-103-SLI-Gaming-PC-Intel-Core-2-Quad-Q9550-4GB-RAM-1TB-HD-GTX-260-Blu-Ray-24-94p410.htm

CPU: Intel® Core 2 Quad Q9550Motherboard: Asus P5N-D (nForce 750i chipset, SLI)Memory: 4.0GB Corsair DDR2 800mhz XMS2 (2x 2GB)Hard Drives: 1TB S-ATAII 3.0Gb/sOptical Drive: 5x Blu-Ray ROM S-ATA DVD±RWGraphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MBSound card: Onboard 7.1 AudioOperating System: No Operating System - I will install my ownPeripherals: Logitech Wireless keyboard and laser mouseMonitors: 24" Asus MK241H Widescreen LCDPSU: 580W Hiper Type-M SilentCase: Antec Nine HundredWarranty: 3 Year Bronze Warranty

I do have to option to customize it aswell, there is no real choice on the graphics card bit, i can have to the above or have it in SLI x2 but this would go over my budget.

First off less than 1GB of ram is no really enough for vista which will be a cause for slowdown. Secondly you need to make sure that any back ground apps are keep to a minimum in you case with the limited ram. Finally run a spyware/adware scan and remove any of those baddies that are monitoring you system and again causing a slow down.Onenottoforget

COD 2 single player goes really slow aswell, the game seems to work on my old PC running windows XP wth only 512MB ram and its spec is not as good as my laptop.