soyo-something-or-other (specs inside) worth upgrading?

[Ashton]

I have a soyo-something-or-other PC, it's an AMD Duron 900 with 2 sticks of 256mb PC-133 RAM (only 2 slots avalible) wiht NO agp slot and somwhat low-quality onboard video.

A guy has offered me an Athlon 1.4ghz CPU for $50, and I can pick up 2x 512-mb PC-133 sticks for around $60 (possibly less), and I need a new video card, looking at one that 128mb or more ($50?)

so a total of $160 to upgrade to a 1.4ghz with 1gb of PC-133 ram.

Is it worth it?

Also, as a BTW, I'm running Windows XP and wondered if it will require re-activation after all that upgrade, should I choose to do it.

 

[Talonz]

Well.. for $275 you can upgrade to a AMD64 3000+ Venice system, 1gb valueram, and a NF3 based motherboard.

In other words, save if you can... Although you could easily resell the PC-133 for more. You can find cheaper processors then that on the FS/FT forums here.

Not worth it in my view. I don't know if you would have to reactivate Windows XP, but it would only take 30 seconds and is pretty painless.