New Video Card or New CPU/MB?

[ziscwg]

What will give the most "Bang for My Buck"
My PC is used mostly for games, like Halo, UT2003, Serious Sam.

Should I replace my CPU/MB/Memory or get a new video card? Unfortunatley, I can't do both right now.

I want to stay in the USD $450 price range on the CPU/MB/Memory set up and around $ 300 on the video. (I can't see spending more than $320 on a video card)

Currently, I have an Athlon 1.4 ghz OC'd to 1.533 an abit kt7a MB with 512 MB of SDRAM.

My video is Gforce4 4400 128 mb OC'd a little.


My thoughts on the new CPU/mb would be an Athlon 3200 barton, nforce2 chip set motherboard, and 512 mb Corsair Ram.

My thoughts on the video would be an ATI 9800 pro 128MB

Any Thoughts?

 

[Seraphim974]

thats would i would get and that is what i did get although i've heard that the barton 2500+ was easily overclockable to 3200+ speeds on an Abit NF7-S V2 mobo, which it was, for me. Therefore, i saved money and went for the 2500+. the stock heatsink is what i am using to overclock that high too

 

[Mad_Pyro]

The Athlon Barton 3200+ is a poor choice. I have never heard of an AthlonXP 2500+ that didn't reach 2.2GHz. Buy a 2500+ mobile processor and use the money you save on another 512MB stick of RAM. The mobile chips have unlocked multipliers, overclock well, and run cool. Also, the Abit NF7-S has been dethroned. Yeah, I have one in my current rig but if I were to buy right now, I would go with the DFI Ultra Infinity, by far the best overclocking Nforce2 motherboard.

 

[ziscwg]

I looked around to find a mobile athlon 2500 barton. I only saw the OEM version at Newegg.com. So, I would need a cooler.

Do the mobile athlons use the same coolers as the desktops??
If so, any recommendations?

Thanks