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What to upgrade first?

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007

Post Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:19 am

What to upgrade first?

Just curious what i should upgrade first on my PC.

specs-

38 gig hard drive - AMD athlon 2500 series proccesser running at 1.83. could be over clocked to 2.5 without to much effort, as i have neccesary cooling.
512 mg ram.
64 mg Nvidia GeForce 3 video card.
not sure whats in it for audio.
54x DVD/CD read only drive.
no floppy.
14 inch daewoo (sp?) moniter (free)
have a ball style mouse(free)
and polk audio speakers (free).

i paid 50 for tower, and 20 for a HP keyboard.

at this point i am thinking speakers as i cant adjust the volume on them, either have to in game or in windows.

optical mouse would be next. not sure if ill go with a wireless one or not.

A question. it has a wireless i-net card in it, but the card has no antenna. If i get a wireless router could i use it as is, or would i need one? the tower is roughly 10 feet from were the router would be. i use my borthers laptop for i-net as we dont have room for it in the office.

suggestions would be appreciated. tnx in advance.

007

Post Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:25 am

1. Vid Card to at least 128mb prefer 256mb
2. Ram to 1gb
3. 100gb hard drive cheap these days.
4. flat screen monitor in the neighborhood 17" for $180

Edited by - Finalday on 4/5/2007 10:26:59 AM

007

Post Mon Apr 09, 2007 12:20 pm

well, i bought a logitech wireless optical mouse, 1200 dpi, works great, and a set of GE speakers with sub for 25$ and 30$ respectivly. might not of been the best choice for speakers, but they work great, and its what i could afford.

007

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