Topic: Upgrade Suggestions

[Robotochan]

Hi all, I'm gonna upgrade my PC in August and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. You'll have to remember that I don't wanta PC that can run Doom III and 300 FPS and I'm on a veeerrrrryy tight budget.

Current System Specs:
2000XP Running at about 56 Celcius
Rubbish Matsonic Motherboard that can't have AGP cards...
256Mb DDR
wrecked case
TNT2 M64 32Mb SD RAM
Don't think the rest is too important  

What I'm Thinking Of Changing It To:
2000XP Running a lot cooler
quiter fan
Asrock K7VT2 Motherboard £45
512Mb PC2100 266Mhz DRR - £40~£30 (From Shop In The Yellow Paper)
Brand Spanking New Mercury Case - £30
16x Liteon DVD Drive - £30
ATi Radeon 7500 64Mb DDR - £40
and eventually a soundblaster live 5.1 card so I can get some BASS!

I currently have the CPU and GFX card and the Motherboard is in the mail  

Any suggestions on any changes or a nice quiet CPU fan which cools better than my current one?

Cheers  
- Robotochan

P.S. Don't Let That Extra Star Get To Your Head Big_Boss  

[Sandra]

For the slight increase,if any,in performance wouldnt you be better waiting another 6 months and getting a faster CPU which will be presumably a lot cheaper than now and althought the DDR seems ridiculously cheap now ( I bought 512 from a local place for £52 on May 1st only to see it dropped to £40 on May 2nd  > )may drop even more  

[Robotochan]

Good idea about the CPU, could flog it of to my brother   I'm getting the DVD drive next so I'll probably end up getting payed to take the DDR by the time I get it hehe.

By the way nice sig, very original  

[Sandra]

I was lucky with my recent upgrade as I got a "Bare bones" pc for £75 with a 1.3 amd athlon in it so I could gut my 450 for the hard drive,Cd,Cd writer and floppy and had to buy some DDR for it.
Unfortunately (or fortunately),it developed a fault on the motherboard ,I think, and I took it back and exchanged it for another one.
I then noticed that they had some XP 2100+ amds in a better(bigger)case with onboard LAN for only another tenner so I got one of those  

Thanks for the comment about my sig,glad to see that some people on here have some musical taste  

So there Simon and Adept  

[Adept]

So there Simon and Adept  

It's a lovely sig Sandra - with the sound off

[Simon]

By the way nice sig, very original  

Don't encourage her, Robotochan!!