What upgrade path should I take?

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RooK

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Ok... I guess i'll list my specs...

p4 2.4 (no HT)
Asus P4P800 E Deluxe
1 gig Patriot 3200 DDR
2x 160gig Hitachi Deskstar in RAID-0
Radeon x700 AGP!!!!

I think thats most of the important stuff.... Well... My question is that I don't know what to do...

Do I trash the motherboard, processor, and vid card and get an athlon/nvidia based system? This x700 is NOT cutting it where it should, and I know that my CPU is lagging.... I want something that will play a song in winamp without stuttering while I install a game or whatever from CD. Will a 3.2 Prescott do this?

What would be the optimal thing for me to do here? I can only use win2000, so if theres any compatiblity issues, forget about XP.
 
if you experience sluttering music when installing software then something must be wrong with your system.. seriously - I have 1700+ TBred @ 1850 MHz and I can do pretty much anything (maybe except for hardcore gaming).
 
anyone else have a tip or two?

Should I get a decent P4 with HT or ditch the mobo and cpu and go athlon?
 
Depends what you are doing if you are a hardcore gamer you may want to go with AMD. You could even keep your RAM. If you just want a general upgrade get a p4 with HT then and definitely PCIe.
 
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