Wana Upgrade My System Please Suggest!

[shyamno]

I want to upgrade my old compaq machine.so guys please suggest a decent config which is VFM.

Basically I want Processor(Intel),motherboard,RAM,HDD that's all.A good motherboard with decent inbuilt graphics capability would help me as i am very tight in budget.

Budget <16K (in extreme extendable to 18K).

[acewin]

proccy - Intel E7200/E7300 - price range 5.5-5.8K
mobo - Asus P5K PL VM (this is G31 chipset mobo price 2.7-2.8K) and a better one Asus P5K VM(price 4.5-4.7K)
MSI G33M (price 4.5K)
both being G33 chipset and supporting max memore of 8GB unlike the G31
the MSI mobo is better in specs has even got eSATA ports.
do not know prices of Gigabyte based G33 mobos. As your best go is a G33 chipset mobo, the two I suggested being very good ones.

RAM if DG31 you cannot go for more than 1 GB sticks, but in DG33 you can go for 2 GB sticks.
Kingston 1GB 800 FSB DDR2 = 750
Kingston 2GB 800 FSB DDR2 = 1200-1300

add up the amount as per your requirements and demand of RAM. I would recommend atleast get 2GB RAM in total

rest for HDD
check your prices from here http://www.theitwares.com/hdd/hdd.htm

If you go with DG33 you would spend
5.8 + 4.5 + 1.3
for HDD I would say get 640 GB Seagate, will cost you 3.8-4K
all this does not include 4% VAT, which will also addin your costs.
and if you wanna go in for extreme then you can also get intel E8200/E8400 processors, which costs more 8K and 8.7K respectively.

doing a little copy paste from comp@dict's post for a phenom based rig for your reference.
In Phenom based rigs you get much better IGP than in any intel config. Take a few prices given in here and you get the scenario, except our boy compy has put 1GB sticks which would be little costly and on this board you can put 2GB sticks also
X4 9550 @ 7k
Jetway 780G motherboard @ 4k
2*1GB DDR2 800MHz @ 1.6k
Zebronics Krish Cabinet @ 1k
CM500W ExP @ 2.5k
ViewSonic 1928w19" @ 8.2k
Seagate 320GB HDD @ 2.5k
22x DVD Writer @ 1.2k

[shyamno]

thanks for the above config..but suppose if i want to go with a decent mobo+a mid range graphics card what would be the choice.

A 160GB HDD inplace of 250 or 320GB would be sufficient for me and save some bucks to be invested in the mobo+graphics card combo.