help needed

[atinsood]

i have a P3 550Mhz 64 Mb Ram
i know itz a bit old and i really wanna upgrade it but i think that can wait 4 one more year

rite now i m upgradin my hard disk to 80 Gb and my Ram to 128+32(32 is existing)
+ my graphic card got screwed up and i have to buy a new VGA card.

can u tell me d best VGA card that i can go for without puttin 2 much burden on my pocket + i don wanna loosae anything on gamin front.

or should i go 4 upgradin my pc rite now

[Kl@w-24]

Well, for gaming, the processor seems to be too slow. And does ur motherboard have an AGP slot or r u thinking of getting a PCI graphics card ? Also, u must be using SD RAM, which is, nowadays, hard to procure and costs way more than DDR RAM. So, u see, u will not be able to enjoy the latest games with what u intend to do to ur machine. I suggest that u upgrade, preferably to an Athlon 64 2800+
which won't cost a bomb and will be reasonably future-proof.

[blade_runner]

Well for playing the latest and the best games u need a fairly fast system these days !! Gosh why cant these developers make something more practical ! So it's better that u go abt upgrading ur system.

AMD 64 2800 6.9k/ 3200+ for 11k
Asus K8V 6.9k (there are cheaper alternatives arnd 5k too)
17' monitor 6.5k
Ram hynix 512 DDR 400:3.8k
Hdd 80Gb 3k. (approx)
cd-writer:1.7k
=26.9k

Adding a good gfx card like Radeon 9600pro 8.5k

=35k