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I went ahead and bit the bullet and ordered the parts this morning. I got: Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80571E5200 - Retail GIGABYTE GA-EP43-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM...

If I were to up my budget to $350 would I be able to make significant improvements and/or add a decent hard drive? The parts you posted above look good but won't a 380W PSU struggle with future upgrades (video cards/cpu/additional hard drives etc).

Sorry my mistake. I downloaded CPU-Z. It says PC2-4300 (266 MHz). The PC came with 2 slots of 512, and I added another 2 slots of 1gb for a total of 3gb.

Yeah my this dimension 8400 has pci-e, it came with something like an ATI x300...I forget. It's been upgraded twice actually. I bought a 6600gt in 2005, and the 8600gts last year. Suprisingly HL2 and other source engine games run suprisingly well at 1024x768 with a few tweaks here and there...

I mentioned in my post that I'm playing TF2, Left4Dead, and Fallout 3 at the moment. Those games and I might buy Far Cry 2 or Call of Duty. Really not limited to one or a few games, I like to play wide variety and genre of games. I don't expect top of the line performance, but playable at medium...

Hey guys I've decided it's time to put together a system for the first time and I need some help. Right now I'm on a Dell Dimension 8400 from 2004. 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Largely gaming, but some light video editing and photoshop...