Hi, new guy here.

I've been looking around for upgrades. I have an ABIT av8 mobo with an Athlon 64 3000+.
I am on a bit of a limited budget, but Im wondering whats the best way to go. While the rest of components are out dated and what not, I dont really have the cash to drop 600 bucks on upgrading most of it.

The purpose for the PC is gaming, atm I can play COD4 pretty well, I think most of the options are turned down a bit.

Any suggestions would be great thanx

Unfortunately, socket 939 is obsolete, so the only dual-core CPUs available for it will cost you more than even faster new dual-core CPUs.
AGP is obsolete, so newer AGP graphics cards will cost you more than equivalent PCI-express graphics cards.
DDR is obsolescent, so upgrading your RAM will cost much more than upgrading DDR2 RAM.

Thus, you'll need to upgrade your MB, CPU, RAM, and video card.
Here's one budget setup:
1) GA-P35-DS3L MB ($90)
2) e2160 CPU w/stock cooler ($70, should be OCable to 3GHz).
3) 2x1GB good quality DDR2-800 RAM ($30-40 after rebate)
4) GeForce 8400/8500 PCI-express graphics card ($30-50 after rebate)

Thanx for the reply, I just left the computer show. I found an asus m2a-vm amd 690g with a 4500 Intel for around 210. And another mobo Asrock wolfdale 1333-d667 r2.0 with 1 gig kingston and 4500 intel chip for around the same price. This last one has onboard video which I know would suck but it would have to do untill I get a better vid card.

What are you thoughts on these.

And the list you gave me. How good of gaming setup is that. Im pretty it will smoke my 939 3000+ LOL

Look around ebay man, I found a used 7300LE for about 13-14 bucks shipped. Just something to hold me over until I could get better.

In fact, here's you something right now....

http://cgi.ebay.com/Nvidia-GeForce [...] dZViewItem

Guy said he was cleaning and that this hadn't been used. Might not be great, but it'd give something to tide you over until you could get a better card.

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicat [...] ?name=CPUs

some 939's still available,if you are interested,altho they may not come with a hsf/fan..

You know Im such an impulse buyer.
I went to Microcenter tonight out of frustration.
I picked up an AMD 4200+ am2, 2gig kit of Buffalo 6400 ram, and Asus m2a-vm board.

I got the system fired up and updated windows after I had to repair windows. But my display wont goto 1400x900
more updates on the way i guess.