Wanting to upgrade my PC

[slingblade10]

I think it is about time I upgrade my PC again. My budget is about 500-1000 dollars.

Currently I am running...Here is a summary from everest.
I am not that computer savvy, so here I guess is teh important stuff.

Computer:
Computer Type ACPI Uniprocessor PC
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 (IE 6.0 SP2)
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Motherboard:
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) 3200+
Motherboard Name MSI K8N Neo4 Series (MS-7125) (4 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x4, 1 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce4, AMD Hammer
System Memory 1024 MB (PC3700 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (11/04/05)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Printer Port (LPT1)
Display:
Video Adapter GeForce 6800 (256 MB)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 6800 (256 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce 6800 PCI-E
Monitor IBM 6331 E54 [15" CRT] (66-XHX51)
Monitor ViewSonic VA1912w Series [19" LCD] (PW6061703231)
Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Realtek ALC850 @ nVIDIA nForce4 (CK8-04) - Audio Codec Interface
Storage:
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Parallel ATA Controller
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller
Storage Controller SCSI/RAID Host Controller
Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 76316 MB (64919 MB free)
D: (NTFS) 238474 MB (33943 MB free)
Total Size 307.4 GB (96.5 GB free)
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From what I can see, I need to upgrade my vid card and I need more memory. The plain old 6800 and 1 gig of ram is starting to just not cut it for games now.

What do you tech savvy people think? I like to play RPG, FPSs, and MMORPGs. I can play most anything now, but I know these new directx 10 games and newer stuff is gonna have a hard time on my machine.

[him61]

You should probably upgrade your RAM to 2 gigs. But you shouldn't have to upgrade your Video Card until you upgrade to Windows Vista, unless of course you're going to drop some serious cash on a good video card and power supply.

[slingblade10]

Originally Posted by him61

You should probably upgrade your RAM to 2 gigs. But you shouldn't have to upgrade your Video Card until you pgrade to Windows Vista, unless of course you're going to drop some serious cash on a good video card and power supply.

I'm not sure about Vista yet, been hearing bad things.
I DLed and it is now on a disk, not sure if I want to play with it yet.

I guess an 8series and new power supply would cost a pretty penny then?

[rebell07]

get a 7 series gfx card
get a 500 wat power supply (silent i prefer)
upgrade ram
also is that an evesham pc to start with
cos my Computer Type is ACPI Uniprocessor PC