So I guess it is forced upgrade time. Might be memory, might be motherboard, might be gfx card, but at the age of them all, can't be arsed investigating. Specs are MSI motherboard, 1.3 duron, 1/2gig ram and a Hercules GF2MX graphics card.
PSU is a decent one, a Tagen 400watter. That replaced the old 350watt Enermax one that ran solidly for 6 years but eventually broke.
Biggest thing is, I don't want to have to scrap my old IDE HDDs, OK I might need to buy one big SATA to boot from, but I have nearly 1TB in internal HDDs that I have various stuff on, over 4 drives including one in a caddy.
I do have one PCI IDE card in there that I can run 4 hdds off, if I scrapped my IDE boot drive for a Sata, and run the DVD-Rom and DVD-RW off the normal legacy onboard IDE.
Question is AMD quadcore Phenom V Intel Quadcore, and NVidia V ATI?
Price is as much a thing as speed, somthing that will last a while but not at ubergamer prices. I don't care if Wendal had his picture on the box.
Probably going to be 3gig ram and 32bit XP for now for compatability. Onboard Network and sound will be sufficient.
Come panel, you know you love your opinions. It will be going into a full tower case, but if a small server cube came up I might be tempted.