Should I upgrade or hold out

[rbanas3]

 

[Jeff7181]

LOL... you might wanna provide some details about what you have now, what you want to be able to do, etc

 

[rbanas3]

I have a AMD 1.2 gig. 256 of ram. Mobo maxed out. Geforce 3 standard. I plan on doing lots of gaming.

 

[Jeff7181]

I'd definately want to upgrade that... but prices will continue to fall when the new processors and video cards come out this fall. You could do a fairly cheap, but decent upgrade right now... I'd go with an AMD setup, cause they pretty much rule the performance per dollar area.

I'd go with somethin like...
Epox 8RDA+ $90 or less
Athlon XP1700 (overclock it to about 2.2-2.4 Ghz) $45 or less
Athlon XP2500 (overclock it to about 2.2 Ghz) about $90
at least 512 MB of RAM... 1 GB would be better... bout $200 for 1 GB of quality PC3200 RAM
Western Digital hard drive, 80, 120, 160, 200 GB depending on your storage needs... anywhere from $80-200 depending on the model you choose
a cheap but good performing video card would be a Ti4200... the Asus V8420S overclocks to the speed of a Ti4600 for about $140
Or you could go with an ATI solution... the 9600 Pro is about $170 I think, and will also overclock very well

 

[SemperFi]

I just upgraded my kids system with the motherboard and 1700xp that jeff suggested from Newegg. I bought a cheap speeze fan $7 at Newegg and overclocked it for the first time last night. I got it to 12 multiplier and 166Mhz fsb. The bios reports it as 2400XP. I only have 2700 ddr. Not bad for $135. I had the ddr already though.

I am about to upgrade my system I was going to pass my 2000XP to the kids computer but this 1700xp will OC better than 2000xp which is palamino I believe.