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My current system Asus A7V333, Athlon XP 2400+, Micron 512meg PC2700, Nvidia Geforce 6600 256meg,
Maxtor 40 gig, 2 Western digital 80 gig 8 Meg in raid 0, Optiarc DVD RW, Win XP Pro, Linksys WRT54G Router and a
MGE Vigor 450 Blue PSU.

I am looking to upgrade not too expensive but get a good leap in performance. This is what I have come up with so far if you have any better ideas let me know .

ABIT IP35 Pro LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6813127030

XFX PVT84GUDF3 GeForce 8600GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150228

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6819115029

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6822148140

CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory – Retail
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6820145589

Currently out of stock at newegg.com so
https://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductD ... e=85025-30

Any help is appreciated.

I'd say drop the HD specs a little and get a much, much better vidcard.

Nah, the hard drive is fine, you won't do much cheaper than a 320 GB drive anyway, and the 7200.10 series is very nice (I have that exact drive in my system). But I would agree on the video card, scraping together enough to get an 8800 GT would make several worlds of difference in the final machines price/performance.

I currently have one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150272 in my system and I am extremely satisfied with it, best price/performance and overall value I have ever had in a video card.

Everything else looks good.

I didn't look at the drive price, never mind. I have almost the same card (mine's evga) and it's most worthy. COD4 @ 1920x1080 full detail is a scream!

I would love to but that puts it way out of my price range.

I need to keep it to around $700 and I don't play much in the way of new games anyway.

Get an E8400.

Edit: ack, they seem to be in low supply, hence overpriced

I have that exact hard drive. It's quiet and fast.

One minor change from:

EVGA 256-P2-N751-TR GeForce 8600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Supported Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6814130085


to:

XFX PVT84GUDF3 GeForce 8600GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150228

for the faster speed and better warranty.

Got the parts in this afternoon. Doing all my backup stuff from this computer since I will be splitting the 2 drives that are in raid 0 back to single drives for when I get a case and power supply to put this one back together for my kids.
Now I just have to wait till tomorrow for a friend who wants to learn how to put one together. That why I saved my backup stuff for tonight. It keeps away the temptation of building it now.

here are the new goodies


http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6813127030



did know what this was right away till i looked close enough to see the little tube inside.

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6835100007


http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6822148140


http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6820145034
Got this one since newegg and zipzoomfly were out of the one listed in the first post.


http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6814150228
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6819115029


http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6820145157
Picked this up for my wifes Acer Aspire 3680 laptop. 512 meg wasn't enough to run Vista on it very well.

Up and running and this is so much faster than my old one it is amazing. Of coarse I said that about my last computer after upgrading also. Thanks for the help.

make sure to post the guts installed in the workstations thread

I was going to wait to get the camera back to do that but I took a pic with my cell phone for now.

You might be kicking yourself right about now since the 9600 GT cards just came out... Either your card is in for a big price drop, or you could have grabbed one of the much higher performing cards for not much more cost. These cards hit as hard as a 256 MB 8800 GT (if only because they have 512 MB standard).

No it doesn't bother me since the week I ordered it would be the only week I could since I had to do it before my wife found something else we should spend the money on.