Having bought my computer in 2003, it has now gone 5 years without any major component upgrades (besides RAM). I know that my drivers and BIOS are all up to date, so I was wondering if you guys could offer me some advice on hardware I should looking into so that the gaming and video markets don't blow by me (although it could be too late). The things I personally believe I should replace include: the power supply, the video card, and maybe throw in another 512MB of RAM. My complete specs are as follows: 1) Hipro 250V ATX power supply 2) 2.4GHz Pentium 4 3) 1.5GB DDR SDRAM 4) 4x DVD+R/RW Drive 5) 48x CD-ROM 6) 160GB Hard Drive 7) 128MB DDR nVidia GeForce FX 5600 8) Realtek AC'97 Integrated 5.1 Capable Sound Also, my motherboard is the ECS SiS 651 with AGP socket for my video card. Any help is appreciated! Thanks!

Don't want to rain on your parade but any further upgrade to that system would be a waste. You could instal a maximum of 2gb ram but the step up from 1.5 to 2 would not see any appreciable performance gain. You may also get a 533FSB Socket 478 CPU of up to 3gHz but again you would not get a big enough performance lift to offset the expense.( They stopped making them anyway so you would be looking on fleabay to get one) The board has only AGP4X which is well below current spec. If you seriously want to step up to modern gaming then the only things you would salvage from your current rig would be the harddrive. Neither the powersupply, motherboard, CPU, RAM or AGP card would be useable. The DVD drive is low spec, the CDROM is redundant. It is up to you whether you buy a readybuilt new system or build one yourself. If you're going to build then hopefully someone like Jam can give you some recommendations. He sure knows his apples and has a constant eye on the specials. Goin' Fishin' (Some day)

I agree with Richard59. Your rig was past its prime long ago. I suggest you keep it as is and just build a second computer from the ground up.

Yea I figured as such, but I was hoping to throw in a few choice pieces of hardware and have it run semi-smooth another year while I save up the $$ to build my new rig. Thanks for the comments guys.