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No reason to upgrade your exisint machine. If you did a :
M-board: $75
2GHZ class CPU & FAN $130
Memory 256MB $50-80
Video Card - $50
New Case & Powersupply- $55 (Your old PS likely will not work)
Good drive - $100
You are now at $450-500 and when you install WindowsXP and after 30 days it tells you to register or it shuts off you now have to go buy a new version of confess to the diabolical Bill Gates that your using one liscense for 2 boxes. Then needing to buy a ful WinXP for $150
OR
For $600 you can buy a new Dell, and for $700 get a new Dell and monitor and have 2 stations at the house....
Unless you like to upgrade piecemeat over time and like being a geek it is just not cost effective to upgrade and build yourself...
I could probably put together a AMD XP1700 for less
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