Hi my current system is:
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
Radeon 9800 Pro
1GB DDR RAM
Really old Soundblaster Live
Xpro 400W Quiet PSU
1x60GB ATA100 Seagate Barracuda
1x250GB Maxtor ATA133
1x320GB SATA Seagate Barracuda
DVD-RW Drive and a DVD-ROM Drive
Antec Super Lanboy Case
I have a 17" Iiyama LCD and run Windows XP and games at 1280x1024. I play HL2 and CS:S fine but would like to play newer games (like FEAR and BF2 which I can run at the moment but at poor FPS and low quality settings) at that resolution at a fair FPS with the quality on high and things like 4x anti aliasing on.
I'm looking to upgrade the CPU, motherboard and graphics card at first but then replace some of the other things when I get the money (e.g. that soundblaster)
This is what I have come up with and I want to know if these are good components for a PC that I'd like to run Vista and future games. And no I don't want to wait for DX10 :rolleyes:
ECS RD480-A939 ATI Xpress 200 ATX Skt939 for £50
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Skt939 2.0GHz 512KB for £102
Connect 3D Radeon x1800GTO for £123
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler for £16
Also could someone tell me if I'll need a buy a new Power Supply Unit when I buy those new components.