Egh? What are you talking about? 1 motherboard, 1 video card, 1 power supply, 1 pair of memory sticks, and 1 processor. That's all that's on the page.

JP_Russell

What the hell?

I see 9 items. Not 5. For example I can see a GeForce 8600 and a Geforce 9600, both at difference prices. I also don't understand whats the "total price" on the right which differs from the unit price, and the sub total is 900$ so I don't understand how this site works.

What do you mean, "more accurate and less choice?"

JP_Russell

There are 2 motherboards here, 2 video cards, 2 power supplies... or did I miss something.

Thanks, though I expected something more accurate and less choices? I don't know much about computer so that confused me a bit.

But the price result is around 320$ with the cheapest part in there and thats great, I'll look into it.

Could you re-use your case, harddrive and CD/DVD driver?Jamiemydearx3

Yes.

Not really. Your CPU is too slow for much, that video card is very dated. And DDR1 ram is very slow.

Do you want me to try to configure a rig for $300?

Jamiemydearx3

Sure, if you think with 300$ you can actually make a "decent" computer, I'd like to hear it.

1. Waste your money on upgrading that computer.

2. Save your money for a better computer.

Jamiemydearx3

That means the upgrade would be pointless, as in it wouldn't help performance in any way?

You are better off saving up for a $600 build computer.Jamiemydearx3

*cough*

As I said, this is not an option. I don't want to wait a year to get my computer and I probably won't get any money before then for this.

[QUOTE="jake-sf"]

Very smoothly? Sorry, but I don't think anyone here will be able to tell you that. The 7300GT will give you rubbish performance in TF2 and any comprable titles. Not to mention the whole CPU+RAM situation...

LightSoulBlue

No... the 7300 GT 512 mb I have and the ram greatly enhanced everything. Now, no matter how low or high the graphics are, the FPS doesn't change, so I guess its only the processor or at worse the ram, but from what I read everywhere its far enough to run smoothly.

1024 MB of ram is far enough (as I said I can just buy another stick, its extremely cheap) and some people run the game perfectly with the same card, so seriously, stop attacking the card, it should be fine for that. I'm only asking for the rest.

That's one heck of an old motherboard. Not even 754, that's an old socket A 462-pin. Sorry, man, but I don't think you can even find processors for that socket anymore. The best processor that was made for it that I know of was the XP 3200+, but it really wouldn't be worth getting even if you could find one. Just save your money up until you can get a new processor, motherboard, memory, video card, and power supply (probably).

JP_Russell

Well, I can't save up my money. I upgrade now, or I wait in a year or 2 for the next upgrade. I don't think you care for me to explain all my financial situation, but that 300$ is still all I'll have for it for a long time.

Your video card is a bad thing because, well, it sucks. It may or may not get by with even the lowest settings in modern games. Coupled with only 1GB of RAM (actually, 768MB if you use the motherboard the guy found, which I'll explain further down), You're going to have trouble running just about anything today.

JP_Russell

Well, I can just buy another 512 mb DDR stick.

And modern game, whats a modern game, something from 2008? At which point I really dont care. I'm not here to run Crysis or anything. 7300 GT doesn't suck, its spot on what I want, I just want the rest to do the job as well.

As I understand the 3.0 dual core wouldn't work at its best, true, but that would still be an improvement, right?

Tell me it runs TF2 very smoothly and most games before this, and I'm happy.

Alright then this got overcomplicated for me.

If I just keep my current setup, what is the best processor I could get that would be worth the upgrade? Obviously it wouldn't be a dual, but a single core can be quite good. If my computer can run the likes of Team Fortress 2 very smoothly thats all I'm asking right now.

I don't know what motherboard I have, I don't know where to find it. I already said I have an AMD Athlon 2200+. Any recommendations then?

--My motherboard is an Asus A7V333.--