Question on what to get to upgrade my computer

[Jsongz]

Specs:
CPU : 2600+ ; 2.13 AMD Athlon Processor
Mobo : Asus A7N8X
Video Card : nVidia 5900 NU
Ram : 512mb pc2100 crap

My problem is that when I play World of Warcraft I experience a great amount of lag while in big cities, in raid groups, or just entering small towns. What I want to do is try to eliminate a lot of that and experience very little (small fps drops here and there are fine.). I think the problem is that I do not have enough ram to handle the game and that the ram itself is crap. When it comes to ram I'm completely clueless now on what I should get and how much I should get.

Other problem:
My brother also experiences the same problem but his is a lot worse. He is using a store bought emachine T2825
Now I figure the problem with his computer would also be the ram but the video card is probably not helping to much either. He wants his computer to run WoW flawlessly with hardly any fps drops.

I haven't really looked at any hardware for over a year so I'm kind of behind the times. If you guys could give some advice for both of our computers then it will be highly appreciated.

 

[Bushman5]

buy 1 gb of pc 3200 value ram and a thlon 64 processor and mobo. the 5900 is still good for anotehr year or so.

 

[Jsongz]

I figured I should get a 1G of PC3200 for my computer; but, are you saying get all three of those things for both of our computers? Btw what type of ram would you recommend from newegg?

 

[shoRunner]

how much money do you have to spend.

 

[Swanny]

Originally posted by: Jsongz
I figured I should get a 1G of PC3200 for my computer; but, are you saying get all three of those things for both of our computers? Btw what type of ram would you recommend from newegg?

I would just upgrade the RAM first. Your CPU is still pretty good. You can always upgrade later and re-use the RAM you bought now.

As for RAM at Newegg, Corsair and Mushkin are usually the cheapest brands that I consider good.

 

[Jsongz]

Okay, well I looked for some corsair ram over at newegg and found this:PC 3200
It seems kinda cheap so I kind of question the quality... Is it a good deal ?

Also, what would you guys recommend I do for my brothers computer? Get the same ram and just a newer video card?

Edit: I'm only updating the ram on my computer so I'm thinking thats going to be around 100 dollars. For my brothers computer he needs both ram and a video card, so I'm assuming that will be around 200-300.

 

[knothead34]

sounds like brother could use more ram but he has integrated video it sounds like. so another 512 is what bro needs and say maybe a 6600gt .