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 Member 792 Level 16.30 Mar 2006 
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You want cheapness and expandability? That's going to interesting.
Your mobo and RAM are dead ends. You're going to have to replace those. Your video card is out of date and should be replaced. The only things I would suggest keeping are the hard drives and optical drives. I don't know the specifications of your power supply, so you may have to replace those. I'm thinking that you're going to keep your monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse. Intel Config CPU: Intel Pentium E2160 Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-P35-S3G RAM: 2 GB DDR2 667+ (2x1024) Video: 8600/9600/8800/3870 The CPU and mobo will cost you around $180. You should be able to overclock the CPU to 3.0 GHz on stock cooling. The mobo also has an upgrade path to 45 nm chips with a BIOS update. It should keep you up to date for a decent while, unless Nehalem completely blows the market apart and people stop focusing on Core architecture. The 667 branded RAM should cost less than $40. 800 RAM will cost more, but keep an eye out for sales from brand names. Only buy brand name RAM. Running no-name RAM and hitting problems isn't worth it. 2 GBs for now. You can slap in more if you need it in the future. Video card is up to you. How much you are willing to pay is up to you. Calculate the price/performance by looking for benchmarks. Prices start from ~$90 for the 8600 to ~$250 for the 8800. I'd still suggest getting a new PSU and hard drives. I'm always worried about PSU failures, which could wreck your entire system. I'm also skittish about hard drives, especially when they pass the 3 year mark. It's really up to you. If you decide to buy a PSU, buy name-brand. Don't buy anything over 450W. As for hard drives, buy whatever name-brand you've had the best experience with. Wait for sales at random stores, online sites and whatnot. Jam it back in, in the dark. 
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