Hi, I am looking to upgrade my computer, either my processor or video card. I do like to game, however not the most demanding games. I play tribes 1 and some other games that dont require alot of top notch software, however, even these games arnt working well on my computer anymore. Here are my stats: Pentium III 800 mhz 512kb RAM Windows Xp pro Radeon 7500 64kb Cable internet, 1880 kbps For some reason, even games like tribes 1 are becoming very laggy, and its definetly not the internet connectiong. Any suggestions for upgrade or anything else would be greatly appriciated, thanks alot everyone.

sometimes, especially in people with high speed internet like you, people get all kinds of nasty spyware and adware on their computers and usually people forget to do regular maintenance like defrag every so often so after a year or two their computers are really running slow and all they need to do is back up their files and do a reformat and reinstall of windows how long have you been running the same install of windows? the reason i ask is because you have a very high speed internet connection and the other thing, you said tribes used to run fine but now it's laggy well, i have a friend who plays tribes 1 on his 400mhz celeron with onboard graphics no problem but you have an 800mhz P3 with a radeon 7500 agp card your hardware is more than sufficient to play the game smoothly but, if you really have your heart set on an upgrade project, this is what i would reccomend: MOTHERBOARD- Soyo SY-KT600 Dragon Plus V 2.0 Via KT600 Athlon(XP)/Duron SktA DDR ATX Motherboard w/Audio, LAN, Serial ATA Retail *** Free 2nd Day *** 266/333/400FSB, ATA/133, AGP 8X, 2DDR DIMM, 5PCI, 1CNR, USB 2.0, Audio, LAN, SATA ($60 Mail-In-Rebate) FREE AFTER MIR PROCESSOR- AMD Mobile Athlon XP 2500+, 266 FSB, 512K Cache, 45 Watt - OEM $89 shipped RAM- Mushkin 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 - Retail $74 shipped POWERSUPPLY- Thermaltake Silent PurePower, 420W ATX power supply.UL, CSA, TUV, CE Approved. Intel Pentium 4 Compliant $39.99 shipped HARDDRIVE- Western Digital Special Edition 80GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model WD800JB, OEM Drive Only $62.75 shipped VIDEO CARD- SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON 9600PRO Atlantis Video Card, 128MB DDR, 128-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP -BULK -OEM $108 shipped wouldnt be too expensive about $374 assuming you can use your old case and have a windows xp cd man i really like this blue font! now, where's jam's budget special hs/f? and uh, does anybody wanna start something here and suggest an athlon 64 setup? common sense isn't very common