PC hardware/CPU advice

[Duli]

Originally Posted by glenno

What would be my best up grade option. These are my specs .
Pentium 4 2.4 northwood.
gigabyte fsb800/dual channel ddr400 motherboard.(478 socket)
2 x 512 megs of ram.
Geforce 4 Ti4400 graphics card.
Would a better grapics card be the way to go(say a 6800) . Also would i be better of upgrading the cpu to fit the existing motherboard (say a Pentium 4 3.2ghz / 800 FSB 1meg cache ) or start again with a new motherboard and go for a (INTEL PENTIUM 4 Processor 640 LGA775 3.2Ghz 64bit 2MB L2-Cache 800FSB) . Thanks .

I would upgrade the Ti4400 gfx card to some 6800 or something like that. The CPU is still quite fine, perhaps you can overclock it (some of P4 2400MHz went all the way up to 3600MHz so I think you should be able to achieve 3200MHz).