I'm currently running a rather old processor (Athlon XP 1400, about 1.2 Ghz) on a motherboard I bought at the same time - don't remember the model off the top of my head, I'm at w*** it's at home. It's got 512MB of fairly base-level RAM.
My graphics card is decent (GeForce 6600 AGP card, 128 Megs), I'm happy with my sound card, DVD burner, and other accessories. But the CPU is really the gaming bottleneck in my system and I'd love to boost my speed up a bit.
Given that I don't want to lose my graphics card (which I would if I went with a PCI Express motherboard), this looks like a hell of a deal to get a new case, motherboard and processor and boost up to a gig of RAM while keeping all the other stuff I'm still happy with. Sounds like I could just snag this, rip out the stuff from my current machine, plug it in and go. For under $350, that ain't bad.
But I haven't shopped for parts in awhile, and I may be missing an angle somewhere. What do you guys think? |
