Upgrade? Or be content with what I have?

jme5343

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I have a shuttle system w/ athlon 2500, 512 MB Ram, Radeon 9600 SE, 160 GB internal, 200 gb external, dvd burner, etc. I was thinking about selling it and using the finds toward an upgrade, but figured to only geta round $400 for all of it, including monitor after shipping.

While this would allow me to adda bout $200 of my own and buy a basic Dell w/ p4 3 Ghz and probably get a 19" monitor in that deal, would I be better served to put $200 in upgrades to the shuttle? I don't even know upgrade what would be worth the $200.

I had o/c'd the chip, and it took it just fine, but the temps were too much to mess with, so it's back down to stock speeds. I don't game, I do a tad bit of video encoding, mostly just listen to music and surf.

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Eddieo

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If you play games, that video card has to go. Maybe just an upgrade of the video card and memory unless you play a lot of games, get a new PC.
 

robertk2012

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for under $150 you could get a new 754 board and get a sempron processor. If thats something you might want to do let me know and ill make some recomendations. What makes you want to upgrade?
 

jme5343

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To put in my shuttle? Now that might be an idea, I'll see if I can just upgrade the board and chip. I just want more speed...typical. I'd like to go with a 939, doesn't that have the most heardroom as far as upgrading?

EDIT: Not happening, from what I read, you can't upgrade the mb in a shuttle...