a friend in need....(he has the upgrade bug...hehe)

[dave127]

my friend has a dell 4100 series desktop with a p3 1GHz, 512 megs of ram, a geforce3 ti200, a 20 gig harddrive...7200rpm, liteon 16x cdrw, a 17" Samsung monitor, a turtle beach santa cruz soundcard, and altec lansing atp 330 speakers....he wants to know what he should spend his money on....he wants to keep it under 200$$, and i dont know what he should get, if i were him, i would get some speakers, but he wants to get a new motherboard/ processor combo becuz his dell cant overclock....any suggestions???

thanks,
dave

 

[scoobydooby]

Well I guess I'm in a similar situation. I have a gateway 1 ghz athlon w/ 128 mb 133 ram. Upgrading to an MSI pro2 w/ 384 mb 2100 crucial for xmas. Too poor to get a new procesor as well and plus it wouldn't have much of an impact on framerates. Speakers would be nice. I'm actually thinking of getting some sony v6 headphones, everyone seems to think they're great for gaming and you can turn them up as loud as you want without making the neighbors/roomate mad. I think they're about $80. Hope that helps
Scoob

 

[sandorski]

Well, before making a decision, make sure the ps in that case isn't using some lame Dell proprietary power connector. If it's standard ATX, then for $200 about the only cpu/mobo combo you can afford will be an AthlonXP/mobo.

If it was me though, I'd get a bigger hard drive, 20gb is just so small.