thegreenguy
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My current system:
-MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD
-Rosewill RX8XL-256PX Radeon X800XL 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
-Thermaltake Silent Purepower W0014RU ATX12V 480W Power Supply
-AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz Socket 939 Processor
-CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
I would like to spend less than $500 with this upgrade. I'm mainly focused on upgrading the graphics card, but I realize that my processor is also getting fairly old and I don't want to waste money on a gpu that will be bottlenecked by it.
In the next 3 years I plan on doing one more upgrade...another gig of RAM when I finally end up getting Vista. After that, I'll look at a whole new PC.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
-MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD
-Rosewill RX8XL-256PX Radeon X800XL 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
-Thermaltake Silent Purepower W0014RU ATX12V 480W Power Supply
-AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz Socket 939 Processor
-CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
I would like to spend less than $500 with this upgrade. I'm mainly focused on upgrading the graphics card, but I realize that my processor is also getting fairly old and I don't want to waste money on a gpu that will be bottlenecked by it.
In the next 3 years I plan on doing one more upgrade...another gig of RAM when I finally end up getting Vista. After that, I'll look at a whole new PC.
Thanks in advance for any advice.