So many upgrade paths...

Okay, here's the deal.  College is coming up, and I have one last good chance to either take a cheap upgrade, or opt for a better upgrade that'll have to wait 5+ years.

Current specs:

6600GT
1 GB DDR400
Athlon 64 3700+ Socket 939 (with AM2CPU slot if needed in the future)

Aaaand newer, less-optimized games (such as Halo 2 Vista, for example) run choppy, but not consistently slow.  Only when I'm first entering a map, or a new room, or turn quickly in a large map.  And loading takes fucking forever...

Anyway.  Do I spend ~$60 on another gig of RAM that I'll replace with DDR2 down the road anyway, or wait it out for DDR2, an AM2CPU board for $40 (or an entirely new mobo if I'm filthy rich by then), a new CPU, and a new video card all at once?



Reader's Digest version: Upgrade cheaply now and "waste" $60, or wait for a much better upgrade years down the road?



I appreciate any advice you guys can offer.

5 years is too long.  Upgrade now.

Don't upgrade, your system is fine. You could upgrade your graphics card, but that's it. And if you're doing a lot, you can get another GB of RAM. Don't bother with DDR2, the performance improvement is not worth wasting your GB of RAM; you'd be spending money for an extra GB and a new motherboard, plus all the hassle, just for less than 5%, when your bottleneck are the graphics.

Also, don't run Vista, faggot. You can "upgrade" by getting rid of that piece of shit that wastes everything that can be wasted and is full of AIDS.

yeah the specs are fine, im running a 939 3700 right now and not having a single problem. only upgrade your ram if ur gonna run vista or something equally stupid. only upgrade ur video card if a game cant be played cofortably get a comfortable keyboard though (im using a microsoft ergnomics 4000)

just wait another year and build a whole new computer and use the one you have now as a media center

>>4
using a microsoft ergnomics
FAILURE OF COLOSSAL PROPORTIONS

>>5
NO U FAIL FOR FAILING TO RECOGNIZE GOOD ERGONOMICS

>>1
You're going to collage but don't know what to buy huh?

Yep, collage education is really fucking helping there then isn't it.

GTFO lamer.

>>7
Um.  I'm not in college yet.  So there's no college education to "fucking help", as you so eloquently put it.

>>8
How did you get accepted then? Oh thats right, education system is retarded... Move along.

>>6
You are the PC version of a Macfag.

>>10
i beat that game. it was fukken hard.

mv 'this thread' /dev/null

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>>12
that doesn't work

>>10
?? that doesnt mean anything