Upgrades for my Desktop.

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Hello all. I want some multiple opinions. I think the Desktop in my sig is still pretty good for the next year and a half. At most I would probably need to upgrade the graphics card in that time frame.

But, this summer I plan to have my friend purchase me Win 7 for around 10 dollars. *YAY College benefits!*

And add either 2 or 4 Gigabytes more of ram. What would be more beneficial the 2 or 4?

I think my Graphics card and Proc are still good for awhile. I only play games at 1680x1050 and as my life is maturing I find less and less time to do so.

But, I am on Windows XP Pro. I am nearing 2 windows generations behind now. So I think it's time to expand.
 
depends on how much multitasking you do. i have yet to run out of space on my 32bit vista installation (limited to 3gb... grumble grumble)

be sure you get the 64 bit edition. my college only had 32 bit vista x,x
 
There's would be no difference between 2 or 4GB of additional RAM besides the fact that you can do a bit more multi-tasking with 6Gb of RAM rather than 4GB of RAM (assuming you're using your current 2Gb set). However if you don't do that much multi-tasking, 4GB of RAM total will be enough. Then again, 4GB of DDR2 RAM is pretty damn cheap and it really doesn't hurt having more RAM. In my current Windows 7 64bit install, I've used up 80% to 90% of 6GB of RAM at some points.

Your current CPU and GPU will be fine. Only upgrade the GPU if you can no longer play games at the settings YOU want/need.
 
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