Upgrade advice

[Guest]

hey everyone

I have a asus am2 plus motherboard thats 2 years old that i built
the ram is maxed out and i only have 1 pce slot on the motherboard

My specs are

athlon x2 645000 at 2.7 dualcore
4 gb of ddr2 ram
9400 gt 1 gb(pcie)
2 harddrives (250 and 320 gb each)
Windows Xp pro 32 bit

Im looking to get another 2 years out of this build
I do a lot of pc gaming and watch a lot of movies on this as well

Im looking to upgrade the video card ( i only use nvidia, upgrade to dx 11, and i have windows 7 x64 disc to)
and the cpu to a quad core or 6 core. Im willing to sink in about 250 dollars on the cpu and gpu.
the motherboard supports am3 with a bios flash and the p1e is 1.0

thanks

 

[jaguarmatt]

Check your motherboard to see how many watts it can supply to the CPU.
If it can hand out 95 watts or more, I highly suggest getting an Athlon II X4.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103882

For a nVidia card with DX-11, the only affordable one for you at the moment would be a GTS 450, which will most likely be out of stock for a while.
http://www.shopblt.com/cgi-bin/shop/shop.cgi?action=enter&thispage=011004001505_BDM2613P.shtml&order_id=!ORDERID!

The CPU is much more powerful than the GPU.
If you're willing to spend more for a GPU, I would go for a GTX 460 1gb.