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Need advice on an upgrade, new mobo and vid card

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p0ntif

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Hi, looking for the biggest bang for the buck. I have a stock dell dimension 2400 with a p4 2.6 and 1 gig of PC2700 333Mhz ram. Currently using a PCI 128 FX 5200 card, and a SB live! soundcard (yes I never got rid of this one) and it plays BF2 great with no problems. Surprisingly. I am looking to upgrade in the next couple of months but only want to upgrade the mobo so I can take a faster vid card . . .PCI express would be grand.

Summary:
got a stock dell dimension 2400
want to upgrade the mobo and vid card and retain the p4 2.6 and 1 gig of PC2700 333Mhz ram.

Would like the best bang for the buck. Please give me some suggestions! Thanks!

 
You'll need a new case and psu as well, I imagine. In regards to what is the best bang for your buck in upgrading, ask a few days before you're ready. The answer to that question, WILL change in a couple of months.
 
Ok so how about a theoretical this weekend upgrade? 🙂
Or is there something on the horizon that I should wait for? (i.e. it will be worth waiting for).
 
I'd like to keep it relatively inexpensive, say ~$300 total for mobo and card. But I could push it up to $400 if there was to be a huge difference in performance. Also, I'd like to have the mobo be able to have a good deal of expansion capabilities, much like my older abit BX6 that I had running for a good 6 years.
 
Like the man said, you will need a better PSU, figure on around $60 for that, probably a better case fan as well. Why not start from the ground up and figure for a new computer? Be better in the long run. Keep the Dell as a backup.
 
I see two motherboards with skt478 support and PCI-E support, both seem to be OOS everywhere. They are...

Asus P4V800D-X
Asus P4RD1-MX

Neither are in stock at ZZF, and neither pull up anything at pricewatch.com.

Otherwise, you're stuck with AGP. In that case...

Motherboard
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=240428
$64

Case/PSU
http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?p=CA-3800BK&c=pw
$109

Video Card
http://tinyurl.com/qgn87
$148

If you can find a motherboard with PCIe support, that would be MUCH better for two reasons, one, it'll last longer, and two, PCIe cards are cheaper than their AGP counterparts.
 
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