New Computer

Dakota · Rated R Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 67

This is what I have and would like to upgrade it for under $400.00 if possible to a quad. Any suggestions?

Processor: AMD Mobile Athlon XP 2600+, 266 Mhz FSB, 512K L2 Cache

Motherboard: ABIT NForce2 Chipset Mdl. # NF7-S
Memory: Kingston HyperX (2X1gig) 184 Pin DDR SDRAM 400 (PC3200)

Video Adapter: ATI/Sapphire 9600 128MB DDR AGP8X W/CRT, TVO & DVI

Sound Adapter (embedded)
LAN Adapter (embedded)
Hard Drive: Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM IDE, ATA 133 MDL # 6Y080P0
Optical Drive1: Nec DVD Burner IDE Mdl: ND-3520A
Optical Drive2: LITE-ON CD Burner IDE Mdl: SOHR-5238S
Floppy Drive: Samsung 3.5
Monitor: Samsung 22â€

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:14:30 Post Subject:

That may be tight, but doable... Probably best to focus on a higher speed dual core CPU for the amount of money since you will need a motherboard, CPU, video card, and memory (at the least). How important are graphics?

Dakota · Rated R Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 67

I know there was one MB that would take my ATI and still go quad, but it was out of stock and the reviews were not that great. I am not into really high graphics, but like to work with my photos.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:39:32 Post Subject:

Well see what you think. Now this is using the on-board Video (which is good, but not great for playing games at high res), and your current case, and optical drives. This would allow you to upgrade the CPU & Video easily later: