Looking to upgrade on budget

[Niege]

I've been running a T-bird 1.2 oc'd to 1.35, 768 of PC133, Radeon 64, on an Iwill KK-266-R - though I'm not doing RAID, 2 HDD, CD-RW. I believe my PS is 300W, though I'll have to check.

Looking for most bang for about $300 or so for mobo, cpu, RAM, vid. The rest I can reuse. I don't do much gaming, but getting more into music editing. I've been out of the building game since I built this one so I feel inundated by way too much info.

Any suggestions?

 

[SpeedZealot369]

well its tough if your not upgrading your processor, what I would do if I were you is either wait for the new amd socket(am2) or get a amd64 3000+ (s939 processor), cheap s939 mobo, maybe a 6600gt, and some valueram(I like corsair)

Let me know what your thoughts on this are.

 

[GamerExpress]

Originally posted by: SpeedZealot369
well its tough if your not upgrading your processor, what I would do if I were you is either wait for the new amd socket(am2) or get a amd64 3000+ (s939 processor), cheap s939 mobo, maybe a 6600gt, and some valueram(I like corsair)

Let me know what your thoughts on this are.

I don't think waiting for the am2 is a good idea since he doesn't want to spend much money, we all know the am2 prices are gonna be quite high for a while after release.

 

[Niege]

Edited to show cpu change, too. Yes, it definitely would be a budget upgrade, so going bleeding edge wouldn't quite fit the criteria. I used to see a rule that if you couldn't double your performance the upgrade wouldn't be worth it. I'm not quite at that desperate point where I have to have an upgrade by next Tuesday, but this rig is getting long in the tooth, faithful though it has been. Ther there's the seven year old 17" CRT....