Right, pretty much finished my pc over there --->

all i need now, is a Processor worth having, and a load of ram. any one got any suggestions? and cost info? etc etc bla bla

heres my PC as it stands

17'' AOC CRT/FTS monitor
514dx 5.1 sound expert optical (trust) sound card
4000P 5.1 home theater sound system
mother board is unknown, will find out
400 mhz athlon piece of shit
64 mb ram
48X CD drive
30 Gb hard drive
USB optical mouse

and maybe some other stuff that i forget... but hey

Yes, processor is worth upgrading, and you can't have enough ram, but 256 will usually do.


The best price/quality processor is an Athlon XP 2600+ . Over here it's about 120€, fair price imho. If it'sa monster processor you want get a pentium4 3ghz, 510€ LOL.

Athlon XP 2600+ it is.


(€= slightly more worth than USD, in case you wanna compare)

P.S. ram is relatively cheap, load up on it as much as you can

chances are you'll need a new motherboard to support the processor natively (though an xp 2600+ WILL work in that motherboard, you'll just need to set BIOS values manually). However, the motherboard probably doesn't support DDR RAM, so you may want a new motherboard for that.

I paid about $140 for my motherboard, it's a Asus A7N8X Deluxe with the Nforce2 400 chipset. Highest performing chipset on the market right now. Two nics built in, audio onboard (if you're into that), DDR400 support, dual memory controllers....blah. I sound like a salesman.

I bought 1 gigabyte of pc2700 corsair RAM for about $200. That two 512MB modules. Not too bad, IMO.

You didn't post your video card, though. If you plan on doing some gaming, that's a definite consideration.

well, me not bought a video card see, me gots to get one, best as i can tell its intergrated, but i don't have a clue. gunna have to find out the mother board aswell, but my mate who I got it from said it was fairly new, like came out 6 months before i had it or something, so prolly a year old by now, if that....

gunna have to open her up and check her out.