Upgrading guidance needed

[PhilAnselmoiss]

Hi,

My current system specs are:
Abit Kt7a v1.3
512 mb Infineon c2 pc133
xp palomino 2100+
Radeon 8500le
Enermax 350w psu


I did some searching & found the following would be a good upgrade

Asus A7N8x-x review found @ http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/asus_a7n8x-x/
512mb Kingston pc3200 ram
radeon 9800pro

are there better parts that I should get or is this satisfactory? I will be putting fsb from my current 133 to 200 and with twice the performance of my 8500le the 9800 should allow me to play ANY game out there at playable rates. Honestly i don't know any programs that can use 1.7ghz of cpu power yet so i may not upgrade cpu for a while. This will cost me around $300 canadian and will seriously boost performance. I may get 1024mb of ram instead but can i buy more later or will it cause problems?

thanks

 

[Perrupa]

I did some searching & found the following would be a good upgrade

Asus A7N8x-x review found @ http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/asus_a7n8x-x/
512mb Kingston pc3200 ram
radeon 9800pro

are there better parts that I should get or is this satisfactory? I will be putting fsb from my current 133 to 200 and with twice the performance of my 8500le the 9800 should allow me to play ANY game out there at playable rates. Honestly i don't know any programs that can use 1.7ghz of cpu power yet so i may not upgrade cpu for a while. This will cost me around $300 canadian and will seriously boost performance. I may get 1024mb of ram instead but can i buy more later or will it cause problems?

thanks

Won't cause any problems adding 512MB RAM later.
Are you upgrading the processor at all in this though? cause for like $100 more with some careful budgeting and shopping around you could likely jump up onto the A64 platform.

The A7N8X is a good board, though some recommend the Abit NF7 as well. either one is good.