Evening all.
I've not upgraded my PC for a few years now - it's an XP3200 with 1.5gb Ram. I've started to get quite seriously into photography and I could do with some more grunt for driving Lightroom and PS, but I don't want to spend much at all. I'm aware that that CPU/Mobo/Ram combo will be seriously dated now, 4 years even? So I guess there's quite a lot I could slot in for not very much money which will provide a fairly hefty performance boost. Could any of you gents do me a favour and suggest some upgrade options? If I set you 3 targets of £100, £150 and £200, could you suggest what I could get for each of those price points and which would provide best VFM for my purposes?
In case it's of relevence, I'm also using an AGP ATI X1600 (might be a problem?), an IDE and a SATA HDD and several PCI cards (WLAN, Network etc). I'm happy with the rest of my system, I'm not much of a gamer any more.
All suggestions much appreciated.