Upgrading an old alienware..need advice

[fjp2552]

I have an alienware that's a lil over 3 years old now and I haven't upgraded the thing and now I think I need to.. I was thinking about a geforce 260 and maybe a Samsung T220 Widescreen.. I have about $500 to play with since financial times have kicked me in the kidney.. Please tell me what you think, I would appreciate it.. Here's the basic system:

ASUS a8n-SLI N-Force4 2mb
athlon 64 x2 4800+ 2x1mb (2.41ghz)
2gb RAM
Nvidia Geforce 7800GTX KO 256mb
raptor 74gb sata 10krpm x 2
xp pro
19'' Samsung syncmaster 1280x1024 @ 4ms
650 watt power supply

 

[Andrew1990]

Well you could get a pretty penny for that X2 4800 as they are gquite rare which would be enough to buy a new AM2 CPU, motherboard, and even ram if you shopped around. You cant really go wrong with a new monitor and the GTX260 is a good card.

 

[fjp2552]

Would the 260 be too much for the mobo i have?

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: fjp2552
I was thinking about a geforce 260 and maybe a Samsung T220 Widescreen.. I have about $500 to play with since financial times have kicked me in the kidney.. Please tell me what you think, I would appreciate it.. Here's the basic system:

ASUS a8n-SLI N-Force4 2mb
athlon 64 x2 4800+ 2x1mb (2.41ghz)
2gb RAM
Nvidia Geforce 7800GTX KO 256mb
raptor 74gb sata 10krpm x 2
xp pro
19'' Samsung syncmaster 1280x1024 @ 4ms
650 watt power supply

With the monitor resolution you're running, and depending on the games you play, the 4870 and GF 260 jockey back and forth.
The GF 260 pulls less power at idle than the 4870, but more running a load.

 

[DSF]

Originally posted by: fjp2552
Would the 260 be too much for the mobo i have?

As long as you have a PCI-express x16 slot, no video card is "too much" for a motherboard.