Advice needed

[marauder68]

I am getting a little over $1000 tax return this year and plan on (finally) upgrading my PC.

I don't need hard drives or a monitor, but will be giving my old PC to my son so I will need a case/ power supply.

Of course a better video card & more memory would be desirable, but those are easy upgrades later when I have some extra money.

I would appreciate any constructive suggestions you may have!

This is what I am planning on so far:

COOLER MASTER Praetorian 730 RC-730-KSN1
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16811119085

Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 550W Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817103931

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.hardforum.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=40

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16819103547

ASUS Radeon X1600XT EAX1600XT SILENT
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814121548

CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Kit System Memory
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820145450

 

[discochan]

I am getting a little over $1000 tax return this year and plan on (finally) upgrading my PC.

I don't need hard drives or a monitor, but will be giving my old PC to my son so I will need a case/ power supply.

Of course a better video card & more memory would be desirable, but those are easy upgrades later when I have some extra money.

I would appreciate any constructive suggestions you may have!

This is what I am planning on so far:

COOLER MASTER Praetorian 730 RC-730-KSN1
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16811119085

Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 550W Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817103931

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.hardforum.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=40

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16819103547

ASUS Radeon X1600XT EAX1600XT SILENT
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814121548

CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Kit System Memory
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820145450

If you get the regular Praetorian which is an awesome case, and the X2 3800, you will save an extra 100 bucks.

With that extra 100 you can get a 7800 GT which will give you more graphics performance. The difference in cpu speed will not be noticable and the older praetorian case I think is pretty awesome.