Planning my hardware upgrade

[FrankSaucedo]

I am planning to upgrade my work computer.
This is what I am considering:
All prices shown are from NewEgg effective 1/13/05

CPU ? Pentium 4, 3Ghz, Socket 478 Retail - $185
Motherboard ? ASRock P4V88RAID - $49 ( I want 4 dimm slots)
Video Card ? Gigabyte Nvidia GeForceFX5700 256MB DDR - $145.50
Memory ? 1GB (2x512) Crossair - $141

Grand Total $520.50

Please Critique

 

[laurenlex]

What apps and programs do you use at work? What are your old computer specs?