Yearly Upgrade Question?

[Empathy]

It is that time of year again, time to do the yearly upgrade. The system I am upgrading from is a Asus p4b533e with 1 gig of geil pc2700 ultra ram and p4b2.8. The system I am wanting to go to is in debate. I am caught between getting a Asus p4c800-E Deluxe and a Soyo dragon 2 board. I am also in debate over ram for the motherboard. I either want to go with 1gig of Geil pc3500 ultra/plat or Corsair XMSpro pc3500 with a p4c2.8. The last thing on my list is video card Should I keep my 9700pro 128 or upgrade to a Asus 9700xt pro. Is it even worth upgrading rite now?

The reason I am asking this is that this site has always been useful when it comes time for doing my upgrades, and the people are just as useful. When I do my upgrades I tend to not make price a issue as much as the quality of the parts and the yearly longevity.

My current system is:
Asus p4b533e
1 gig Geil 2700 ultra
p4b2.8
vantec 520 stealth psu
2 maxtor 120 gig hds/ thinking about doing 2 80s on raid/
all Thermaltake case fans and Volcano p4 heatsink and fan
all Vantec Cables
creative ovation 16x dvd w/plextor 52/24/52 cdrw/asus I panel
creative audigy 2 platinum/leadtec tv 2000 xp deluxe
Chaintec Dragon tower/ heavily modified
radeon 9700 pro
Windows xp home

Any help that anyone can give on deciding on a Mobo and the ram will be heavily appreciated as well as any other things that can be upgraded as well.

Thanks
Empathy

 

[o1die]

You have a very nice system. I wouldn't upgrade anything if everything runs well and is stable. Next year will bring lots of changes, and you might want to sell your old system and start over with prescott.

 

[Crashman]

You have a nice system, I'd put your upgrade money away for now. Intel will be releasing the Prescott in about a month, then a new socket for faster prescotts and PCI-Express chipsets similtaniously a few months later.

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