What Would You Upgrade First?

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If you had this rig, what would you upgrade first?

Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 9500 Quad-Core Processor, MMX, 3DNow (4 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 160 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
Monitor: Viewsonic 19" VA1903wb
Sound Card: C-Media CM6501 Like Sound Device
Speakers/Headphones: Logitech
Keyboard: USB Root Hub
Mouse: G4
Mouse Surface: Standard/slick surface
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254)
Motherboard: ASUS
Computer Case: Nzxt Apollo
Power Supply: 450 Watts (not sure on this but it's 400 something)
 
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memory hands down... It helps with games like no other!!! Then your graphics card... hard drive and then power supply.. that's the way i would do it. My two cents anyways...
 
Okay, now the harder question...what graphics card? What power supply? etc....
 
In order;

PSU, then
GFX
Memory
HD
OS (64bit)

That PSU may handle everything up to a GTS250/4850, but for how long? The PSU is one of those things that if 'it' goes, more can go out with it.

So how far were you planning on taking any of these upgrades?

cg
 
i would upgrade the graphics card because games these days are getting better and better...
 
Video Card looks a bit behind.

The Nvidia 8 series is superb, and the 6 will work too...
 
get a nice psu that has some head room for whatever you throw at it.
but before we make any more suggestions, tell us a budget?
 
Graphics card and PSU first then hard drive or memory. And a budget would be helpful.
 
power supply (so you can upgrade the gfx card)
graphics card

Motherboard and processor

HDD if you are short on space
 
Pc power and cooling is the best power supply hands down... and for graphics... I would go with nvidia's 290... and it's about to be a lot lower in price because of the new cards this winter... so I would go with that.... its fast and should have no problem with most games on high settings... My two cents anyways...
 
It also depends on what kind of Graphics card you would get. I have a 480 watt power supply and it runs my nvidia 9800gt just fine.
 
new OS then max out how much memory the board can take, you'll up your performance big time. then psu and graphics.
 
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