Two towers into one

Hi,
I'd like some advice, I have two towers each with different components. i want to take the better hardware/sofware and put it all together into one tower.
system 1
Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz
Memory : 3327MB(800)
Mother Board : P5K Deluxe
Windows Version : Microsoft Windows XP ProfessionalService Pack 3 32 bit
Video Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
Disk Drive : SAMSUNG HD103UJ(931GB,IDE)
DVD/CD-ROM Drive : TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223Q

system 2
Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory : 4 GB
Mother Board : P5B Deluxe
Windows Version : Microsoft Windows 7 Premium SP1 64 bit
Video Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
Disk Drive : ST32000542AS

Willing to buy some new hardware without rebuilding from scratch such as solid state drive and new video card.

any advice is appreciated

 

Need some specifics about the GPUs, like bandwith and GDDR.

You'll get a slight edge out of the 6750 CPU, and stick with the P5K mobo. As far as the RAM, go with the higher frequency/largest modules. As far as an SSD, don't settle for less than 500 MB/s read/write, and of course XP is expired. Stick with the Seagate HDD.

 

system 1
Graphics EngineGeForce 8600GTVideo Memory512M DDR3Engine Clock540MHzMemory Clock1.4GHz (700MHz DDR3)Memory Interface128 bitCRT Max Resolution2048x1536 Bus StandardPCI Express X16

system 2
CUDA Cores1192Graphics Clock (MHz)576MHzProcessor Clock (MHz)1242MHzTexture Fill Rate (billion/sec)36.9Memory Specs
Memory Clock999MHzStandard Memory Config896MBMemory Interface Width448-bitMemory Bandwidth (GB/sec)111.9Feature Support

 

also can i just swap the hard drive with windows 7 to the tower with the better motherboard

 

No, you can't. You will need to do a clean install of Windows 7 unless you want to deal with a "buggy" machine, or one that won't boot at all. Hardware mapping is important to overall system compatibility and speed.