Best gaming PC specs within £300-500?

Whats the best specs i could get for £300-500 (roughly $600-1000)? Is "The bigger the number, the better it is" true when it comes to graphics cards and whatnot?

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Well, £300-500 is not equivalent to $600-1000 for a start (it's more like $500-850), plus your money won't go as far because of a nasty little thing called VAT pushing prices up relative to (most of) the US. Are you building from scratch or is this to replace an older PC? If it's the latter you can save yourself a bit of money by reusing parts like the monitor, optical drives, hard drives and case (might want to replace the power supply). Base it around an Athlon 64 (good price:performance ratio), stick in a GeForce 6800XT graphics card, a gig of CL2 RAM (more if you can afford it) and away you go. If you're expecting to build something for that budget where you have to buy *every* component, including a monitor, hard disk, etc. you won't manage anything that's capable of running current games well.

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Win for understanding (through sarcasm).