Upgrading Computer

[thescreensavers]

I have a 400 dollar budget to upgrade my mom?s 2 year old computer

Right now she has

2.4ghzCelaron
2x 256mb ddr333 or 400 ram
Intergraded Video
intergraded sound
some CompUSA PSU 300watt
and a DVD rom
and CD-RW
Maxtor 40 gig HD

Now what I want to take out

MOBO
PSU
CELARON
HD

And add

MSI K8NGM2-FID Micro ATX AMD Motherboard


Fortron AX400-PN RoHS

AMD Athlon 64 3000

pqi POWER Series 1GB

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb

Is that good she needs as much performance as possible. I think that?s a good upgrade.

If you would like to change it in any way to make it better pls post.

Thank you


edit: Chaged CPU to 3000,and chaged the mobo


price from newegg with shipping 376.61

 

[Gusty987]

Consider the 3000+ instead. Practically the same with tiny performance loss, but like $50 cheaper.

 

[imported_fx]

What your mom using the computer for? I don't think she'll need 1 gig ram before Vista release.

My suggestion:

AMD Semperon 3400+ and Biostar TForce6100 Socket 754 combo=$179
Keep the RAM
Forton FSP350 350watts PSU=$51
Keep the HD (40gb is plenty)

Total- $230

 

[thescreensavers]

Well she needs it to be fast she does web surfing and e-mail but I want to go to with a AMD athlon 64 Chips only I want to exceed the need

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
Well she needs it to be fast she does web surfing and e-mail but I want to go to with a AMD athlon 64 Chips only I want to exceed the need

Are you going to waste mom's money for no reason?

Is she actually complaining about the 2.4 GHz's speed for surfing the web? If so, it's probably a spyware/adware/virus/trojan problem not a CPU problem.

 

[chusteczka]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
Well she needs it to be fast she does web surfing and e-mail but I want to go to with a AMD athlon 64 Chips only I want to exceed the need

Are you going to waste mom's money for no reason?

Is she actually complaining about the 2.4 GHz's speed for surfing the web? If so, it's probably a spyware/adware/virus/trojan problem not a CPU problem.

:thumbsup:


Upgrade the RAM to 1GB, obtain a larger hard drive and you are done. A seagate 80GB, 120GB, or 160GB should work fine.

Making unnecessary changes is a waste, even though I can certainly understand the desire to work on a computer.

 

[Ionizer86]

Just buy an off the shelf Sempron box from BBuy or something for <$300, then add another 512MB ram if the system comes with 256MB stock. Low-end systems are cheaper prebuilt than white-boxed now!