What would you upgrade first?

[fluffypenguin]

I'm running with:
2 IDE drives: Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB and a Seagate Barracuda ST3160023A 7200.7
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium with X2 3800+ with a Thermaltake CL-P0296
256mb 7800gt
2X256 mb of dual channel corsair and one 512mb stick of crucial
520w OCZ modstream
19" Samsung CRT

I can spend $200-300 now and then keep upgrading through the year a little bit at a time.

 

[Sirfiroth]

If you are going to keep this system for a while 1-2 years. I would up grade the memory. you are running a total of 1gb , but configuration will not permit the system to run in dual channel. I would add 3 sticks of the same type crucial 512 mb memory so that the system will run in dual channel.
what are the timings on your configuration?

 

[Featherstone]

What are you doing with the system? Gaming? just surfing the web? photoshop?

What Video Card do you have?

Why do you want to upgrade?

 

[CompuTronix]

X2 3800...2X256 mb of dual channel corsair and one 512mb stick of crucial...I can spend $200-300 now and then keep upgrading through the year a little bit at a time.

Purchase an Opteron 170 (had one in my former rig OC'd to 3.0 Ghz) and a matching 512 Mb Crucial, then eBay the X2 3800 and the 2X256 Corsair. This will put you into the fastest socket 939 CPU (FX-62 equivalent) at the lowest price, and 2X512 dual channel for ~ $300. Later you can add 2 more 512's for a total of 2Gb. 8)

 

[fluffypenguin]

What are you doing with the system? Gaming? just surfing the web? photoshop?

What Video Card do you have?

Why do you want to upgrade?

During school I mostly do schoolwork (MS Word, internet browsing) nothing in the least bit intensive. Sometimes I'll take a break and play some Splinter Cell, Rome Total War, DoTa, WoW. I'm running the EVGA 7800GT with copper heatsink. The memory timings are 2.5/3/3/3. If I were to upgrade to an opteron I wouldn't mind paying some more money for the OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K