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Upgrading

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Well im looking to upgrade, and I can really only upgrade one aspect of my system right now. So here is what I have, what should I upgrade, and with what?

Monitor: Some crappy old 17" compaq CRT, probably 5 or 6 years old
Speakers: Decent 2.1 set up by altec lansing, about 6 or 7 years old
Keyboard/Mouse: New logitech wireless duo
Power Supply: Some good one, forgot the name
Hard Drive: 80 gig Western Digital
Sound Car: Integrated with my mobo
CD Drives: 1 sony cd-rw, 1 dvd reader
Floppy: Generic Floppy
CPU: 2500+ Barton OC'D to 3200+
Mobo: Epox 8RDA+
Memory: 2x256 Geil 2700 OC'd to 3200
Video Card: Softmodded 9500, I can get the same 3dmark scores as some 9800 users

So lets hear it, what should I upgrade?
 
well.. i mean, you can't say 1 aspect.. can you say that upgrading to a 19 inch LCD and buying a sound card would even be in the same league?

how much money do you want to spend? and what do you need the most?

if you have 4 gb of free space, then get a 200gb hard drive for $100 at your local office supply or electronics chain, one of them will have one on sale for that cheap.. probably..

i wouldn't touch the cpu or mobo, because getting one would require getting both.. but maybe you want a new heatsink for the cpu? maybe not.. did that 2500+ oc with stock voltage or not?

maybe you want a gig of memory with lower timings.. what timings did you have to drop that geil to, in order to get 200 mhz out of it?

personally, i would just sit on that system unless something warranted an upgrade, such as the monitor pissing me off, my HD getting full, the vid card maxing out on games, etc...
 
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