Upgrading my system need some advice

This are the parts that I would have to get rid off, in order to buy my new setup:

MotherBoard: Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe

PCU: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ "Barton"(Has never been overclocked) w/ heatsink and fan.

Video Card: Sapphire ATI Radeon X800pro 256mb AGP

Ram: 2GB (1GB x 2) PC3200 Ram (DDR 400).

Hard Drive: Western Digital 80GB 8mb Cache 7200RPM

I have all of the original Boxes, instructions, cds, cables, etc for the MOBO, Video Card and Hard Drive.

how much do you think I could obtain for selling that?




now with that out of the way, my budget for upgrade is of about $650

I would need a new MOBO, CPU, RAM and Video Card.

Possibly also a new Powersupply since my current one is 350watt antec that came with my antec lanboy case.


I am mostly a gamer and web surfer, dont use the pc for any other fancy stuff.

Do I go with AMD or Intel for the dual core?

should I wait until the Directx10 vid cards drop to $200 level.

what advice can u give me?

...well, prices drop, that's true, but the same is worth for your old rig. I live in a place where all US prices are multiplied by 2, but still could not get more than $200 from my olf P4 2.6GHz w. 512M RAM, 80G HDD etc. There are alot of people buying used cars but very few of them buy used PCs, so He'd better try to sell it now or chances do do so will decrease exponentially in 4-6 months when you talking about.
Altogether, that is still a good budget for buying and overclocking something nice like an E4300/6300, a X2 3600/3800+ .

cool, how does that vid card compare to say an Ati radeon X1950pro pci-e??


My $650 budget breaks up somethings like this:

*Intel Core 2 due E6300 ($187)

*ASUS P5B-E LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard ($150)

*SAPPHIRE Radeon X1950PRO 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card - ($165 w/ mail in rebate)

*Patriot 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) ($83 w/mail in rebate)


that is more or less what I have my eye on, but I would rather wait for a directx10 vid card that is somewhat cheap.

I hope I could get like $350 for my stuff, so my investment is no more than $300.

If I were you, I would grab this mobo and an x2 3800.
Then you could wait for the reviews on DX10 cards.
I still have nightmares about the nvidia 5000 cards and Dx9.

is the Pentiumd dual core 2 E6400 much better than then E6300, like noticiaable performance dif in gaming?