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I'm curious to see what everyone is running... I'm currently on the Arthas Server and at night it can be hectic as I get dropped 5-6 times a night..
I have a P4 2.26ghz, 512 DDR, geforce 4 mx440
I'm going to throw a gig stick of DDR and I'm looking to upgrade my Video card to something decent.. but i'm not looking to spend $350 on a 6800 geforce (I wish i could :P) What would help my gaming experience?

A new card for sure. You can find Radeon 9600 Pros for under a hundred dollars on newegg.com right now. They are vastly better then a MX440 and will cost around 80 dollars.
Processor P4@ 2.6 Ghz, FSB@535Mhz
RAM 512MB's PC2700/32001 256 stick of each. Hard Disk Drives 1 40 GB HD 1 10 GB HD CD/DVD Drives CDRW52X

See responses 6, 7 & 8:
http://www.computing.net/gaming/wwwboard/forum/4520.html
Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @ 8.5 x 200MHz
768MB PC3200
Asus A9550 128MB/128-bit
Gamer Edition
WinME/WinXP Pro

Yeah, a 9600 Pro or XT would be a good fit with your system. I don't see much point getting more card than that unless you're gonna upgrade your CPU, which at that point, you might as well go new motherboard with PCI-e anyway.
"...but in my defense, it was dark, I was drunk, and it was delicious!"

It's always a bit of a mixed bag with graphics cards, the spec I've got I've been running for a long time now, but the graphics card I've had for 3 to 4 years and its never let me down!
I can still run HL2, Doom 3 etc with high graphic quality and no slow down. *shrug* go figure.
AMD Athlon XP 1.8GHz
512MB RAM
120GB HDD SATA
12GB HDD IDE
GeForce 4 Ti4600 128MB
Nvidia nforce2 chipset w/ soundstorm
Pioneer DVD/RW
ABIT NF-7S Rev 2 Motherboard

THanks for all the comments i went ahead and am building a new comp..
3500+ AMD 64bit
Asus A8V Deluxe
1GB Kingston Hyperx ddr400
Geforce 6800gtI think this should handle the game..

If you're REALLY serious about playing World of Warcraft, I'd get even more than 1GB of RAM. I'd go with 1.5 or even 2GB of RAM for those intense Battleground raids. For regular grinding you could easily get away with 512MB, but as soon as you get into some serious PvP action, RAM is a must.
As for CPU and videocard, looks like you'll be just fine with those new specs =)
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