upgrading a computer

[essai2008]

Hey guys i am planning on upgrading my computer, I think it has been 10 years id' say i still have a pentium3 733 mhz computer. I am looking to upgrade it but i was wondering if I can still recycle my old parts and put them to use on the new computer.
I have the following in my computer
733mhz
some mother board
1 gig of ram
agp 9600xt
and a 300watt power conductor in my antec case.

I was planning on buying the e8400 and a ddr3 supporting motherboard.

Though my question was whether the 300W power suppy and my case would be good enough to support these products??
I dont intend on spending too much,plus i love my antec tower.

Thanks, sorry for my ignorance.

 

[Atheus]

You're stuck unfortunately - your machine is too old to reuse parts in a new system and there's not much more room to improve what you've got. The new boards take PCIE video cards and requires more than a 300W PSU, so those are unusable, and even the case is probably not the best for cooling the new hot vid cards and CPUs.

I bet you have an old 15" CRT monitor too right?

What you want to do is shop around for a complete system including an Intel C2D processor, at least 2 gigs of RAM, a decent video card (if you game) and a nice 19" LCD. You might be surprized what you can get for very little money. Unless of course you want to build it yourself...

 

[essai2008]

though will building it minimize my spenditure? if i had bought it prebuilt?

 

[Atheus]

You can build an extremely powerful system which is not for sale in the shops - if you want to pay for it - or you can build reasonable gaming power for cheap by using a budget board and CPU and strapping on an expensive vid card. If you're not interested in very high performance for games or work then go with the pre-built.

Plus you have to know what you're doing to build successfully.