What to do wit new money

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xbreaka

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I just made about 300$ doing landscaping and mowing lawns and im wondering what to upgrade my current setup is.
amd ahtlon xp 2000+tbred
512 mb pc2100ddr ram
radeon 9200pro
40 gig hd
abit nf7 mobo
3 year old 22 inch crt monitor
a shitty keyboard and a mouse that really is for my dads comp that i hijack
 
A dictionary. Spend the rest on a 2500+ and a bit of PC3200 RAM. Let that NF7 do what it's good at. :)
 
Originally posted by dylman
A dictionary. Spend the rest on a 2500+ and a bit of PC3200 RAM. Let that NF7 do what it's good at. :)
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he needs to throw a LITTLE bit on a good kb/mouse...
 
I would save it till you have enough to buy a new full system.

Lots of new stuff coming out this year that should be interesting. Prescott and PCI Express are two of them :). The A64's are doing good now too especially if they can ever get a descent motherboard for them out.
 
Originally posted by xbreaka
I just made about 300$ doing landscaping and mowing lawns and im wondering what to upgrade my current setup is.
amd ahtlon xp 2000+tbred
512 mb pc2100ddr ram
radeon 9200pro
40 gig hd
abit nf7 mobo
3 year old 22 inch crt monitor
a shitty keyboard and a mouse that really is for my dads comp that i hijack
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Buy a keyboard that doesn't have a broken period key.
 
Get mx 500 and a logitech elite, and some ram and some 2500s and some new cases and some new moniters. oh wait, my period key is not broken, hurra.
 
im not gonna go build another rig as this was the first rig i ever built(im 12) so it has centimental value, i jus wanna know if theres some parts that could use touching up.
 
If you really want to upgrade. Get a better video card if you play games. Ati 9700 pro or Ati 9800 non pro.
 
You're 12, that's cool. Yeah, I know what you mean about sentimental value, but you will get more out of it if you were to save a few more bucks and then build a new system. You can still keep the old system, can even use some of the parts. But there is nothing better than getting a new system. I mean, you are still the one that is building it. So don't think of it as a 2nd computer, but just a better version of your 1st computer.

As for your system right now. The monitor is fine since LCD are not that affordable yet.

The HD is fine if you are not going to be using it for hardcore Movie/Photo editing. If you have at least 50% free space still, then you do not need to purchase a new Hard Drive.

Do you have a CD-RW burner? If not then get yourself a combo drive. Liteon has a good one for around $50 bucks or so. That is a good upgrade if you are planning on burning things. It will also be useful in the future.

If you do alot of gaming and you want a little more "umph", then you can sell that 9200 and get a 9600XT. That will run you $160. But if the card that you have right now is doing exactly what you want it to do, then stick with that one.

As for the Ram, 512MB is a good amount, especially for Win XP (You are running this OS or no?). If you want, you can sell these 2x256MB and get yourself a nicer 1x512MB PC2700 or 3200.

The best thing to do if you really want to spend some money is to get a really nice set of Keyboard and Mouse. Logitech makes the Elite setup. They are prolly the best IMO. They have a corded and a wireless version. So yeah, this is a must.

Let us know what you plan on doing.
 
get a freakin gfx card as well as some better ram than that crap pc2100 ram and get a faster cpu.... but i would suggest waiting 6 months on all of that
 
you should wait until the new line of hardware comes out and have the prices of decently good hardware drop
then make ur move and buy a better vid card (9800 pro, hopefully its gonna be <$200) and buy some better RAM
 
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