Help me upgrade.

[PrizeFighter]

My Current Computer

AMD Athlong XP 2700+ 2.16GHz
1 GB PC3200 DDR RAM (value ram)
ATI Radeon 9800pro 128mb AGP
80 GB G-ATA Hard Drive (i think thats the right form?)
480watt PowerLab PSU
Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music
MSI K7N2 Delta 2 Nforce 2 Motherboard
Asus CD-ROM/CD-RW 52x Drive
and of course a floppy drive

I have recently been playing games with the Quake 3 engine like Return to Castle Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory and so forth, But I will most likely be playing the new Enemy Territory:Quake Wars when it comes out, which is running the Doom 3 engine.

Oh and I will probably have around $500 to upgrade with

I am mixed between going to socket 939 or saving some more money and going to AM2 or Conroe for future upgrades.

All the help deciding this is truley appreciated. Thank you.

 

[PrizeFighter]

Any suggestions for a Althlon 64 system if i plan to go that route? Unfortunately I will only have $400 to work with now. So I am keeping the Case, PSU, Hard Drive and the X-Fi Sound Card, I need suggestions for:

CPU
Motherboard
Video Card
Ram

I have built my Athlon XP system but after reading some stuff others have posted, I would rate myself as a noobie to this stuff. Anyway I am really relying on some suggestions......Please Help Me

Thank You

 

[moparman390]

Save up a little more.

 

[chuckshissle]

Okay here's what I got for you.

Motherboard: $ 75

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131569

CPU: $135

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103535

GPU: $275

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130015

Total: $ 485

Shipping: $20-$25.

That would be a good setup especially for gaming with Quake 3 and it is also easily upgradable.

Sell the motherboard, cpu and gpu as a combo to get more money.

 

[PrizeFighter]

Is there a certain place that I can sell my old parts to?

 

[MrsD]

how do you delete post?

 

[MrsD]

Going to AM2 now will not cost any more than going to socket 939 except you will need new ram, but ram is cheap. You can get a Gig of DDR2-667 for like $80 or less.
You could go with a inexpensive Sempron64 or Athlon 64 and wait till the X2's or 65nm X2's are affordable.

 

[AlexanderTheGreat]

ok, AM2 is out now. I saw it the other day at the local electronics store. A true AMD fan should already own.

 

[GAMBLE06]

Listen to Chuck.. That will give you one hell of a boost on performance. Only thing I would recomend is get another stick of ram down the road, but that can wait.