To Upgrade, or Build a New One?

Grabbing the new card and ram will give your rig another year or so of life.

Whats the point of having hardcore RAM and a sweet GC when your mobo or CPU can't handle it?

Mobo can handle 3.2 GB's of ram, however as far as the CPU goes, I'm not sure. I really do not know what to do. I don't want to spend $1000 right now, but that looks like my only option...

Hmm Yea i guess the mobo will be fine. I just thought of an idea. Why not see if your mobo supports athlon 64 x2? You can get a decent one for i think $180 NZ so not sure how much US but that would be a good option

EDIT: are you sure your mobo is called a Asus A7V9X-X because when i googled it this thread was the first result

Yea I'm sure, I read it straight off of CPU-Z

If you Google A7V, you can read more about it. In fact, I have a socket 462 motherboard, not a 754 or 939 or AM2. Its that old... So I wouldn't even be able to fit the regular 64 bit processor. Definitely looks like its time for an upgrade.

Review of the Asus A7V

Could you spend another $120 for a AM2 mobo? I found a couple good one's

Yea, but then I'd need a new CPU and graphics card. So no matter what I do I'm spending close to $1000.

Hmm tru tru, i'm not sure, maybe it is time to upgrade

Well, how does this sound:

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+
• G.SKILL 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
• GIGABYTE GA-M55SLI-S4 Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI
• with either an EVGA 8800GTS with 640MB or 320MB of ram

I can use my existing case (old Gateway case) and power supply (400 watts I believe) along with my huge, faithful 16GB hard drive. So the total would be $740 for the 640MB card or $650 for the 320MB card. Of course I could always buy 2 of these cards and run them SLI for around the same price as the 640MB card. I'm not really sure what would be best for gaming. The GPU's are probably excellent, its just the ram that I'm worried about. And dual monitors are definitely in this systems future. Oh yea, and is there any advantage over getting a 2GB stick of memory instead of 2 x 1024MB stick of memory other than future proofing?

Thanks for the help guys, I'm mentally retarded and hopeless when it comes to hardware upgrades.

Hmm i'm thinking that you should go get a core 2 duo, cause you would be future proofing. My pick would be
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3P
Corsair Twi2X 1024mb or 2048mb 6400 Pro
A 8800GTS should be fine, Try get that one (forgot the brand name) Golden Sample, because it comes ready overclocked. That would be a mint system and it would be awsome to overclock.