I have considered saving up. I've been going around to other message boards seeing what their advise is though.
How much work does it take to take out a motherboard and put in a new one? If I wanted to upgrade just the motherboard and processor on my current computer, could I do that for $300? I have Radeon 9600, so it has the older slot, and I have an older processor, so I need a new motherboard with the old slot for the radeon and a new slot for a new processor. I would probably have to buy new ram right?
Here's the story. I currently have a computer. It's kind of old. The only things I have upgraded on it are the hard drive, video card, and ram. But the processor is kind of slow. It is a AMD 1.3ghz processor. I would really like to upgrade that to something that would just put that to shame. But for me to upgrade it, I would have to buy a new motherboard because I believe the slot has changed since I got my motherboard years ago.
So, I was contemplating buying a starter PC and starting from scratch with that. But if I can't do that, maybe I can upgrade what i have now.
Could I get RAM, a motherboard, and a processor better than my 1.3Ghz for $300?