$400, need memory and other suggestions

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I'll have about $400 to spend on some upgrades for my pc soon. What I have now is in my sig. I know memory is the first thing I want to upgrade. What are your suggestions for that?

I need some new case fans, but that's small taters. But I was looking to pick up a tv tuner card as well. I also want just 1 large hard drive (200Gb or so). So suggestions would be very much appreciated, for other things as well!
 
I don't know what you use your computer for, but 1GB of RAM seems to be enough already. If it were me i'd get a new mobo and processor. Maybe save up a little more and get a PCIe mobo and a new vid card to go with it.

Edit: The TV card and hard drive look like good buys too, if you don't want to do a total upgrade right now.
 
Sorry, forgot to mention that the memory isn't additional. I want something faster and higher quality. The current stuff I have will end up going into a 2nd machine I'm putting together for my wife. Same with the other hard drives.

I read somewhere here that TV card was a good one to go with. I just want to dabble with it a bit, so I don't want to spend a mint on one.
 
lithium726 said:
new board and chip, the XP's just cant keep up anymore.
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Any suggestions? I haven't looked at the mobo's much for the newer CPUs. I'm running the Abit board now and am happy with it, but what's a good way to go for the newer ones? Any good priced combos out there right now?
 
Andrew_Carr said:
Could go dfi nf4 and venice 3200+ for like 330$ or just a tad more.
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Yeah, but then that puts me over on getting decent memory. Right now, my cpu seems to be doing me just fine. But I'm held back on memory. But if I could get new board, cpu and memory for around $400, that would be cool. I just want to stay away from Value Ram. Time to move up in the world a bit.
 
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