upgrades?

[karling07]

Get a 7600GT, with a 400W FPS Forton Source PSU, and another gig of ram. That should be about perfect for your budget.

Edit-
I hope you all realize that if his hard drive isnt SATA, 3.0gbs, and it is IDE (which I highly dbout) that he would also need to get a new motherboard.

I assumed since he had a socket 939 Mobo that he would most likely have SATA, but now that you mention it, you might be right. I was just thinking maybe he bought an IDE HD a long time ago at best buy or something before knowing what SATA was. Thats what I did for a while, then realized I had SATA on my mobo

 

[Mikey1]

OK look at where your hard drive connects to the mobo and gets power. Does it use a Ribbon ( IDE Cable ) or does it connect with a smaller connector ( black red ). Your cd drive will use ribbons if u dont know what one looks like

 

[Ronco Rox]

alright i found out it was an IDE.

Mikey, your saying that an IDE is a grey ribbon with a black connector to the mobo correct?

 

[Kuberr]

I would get RAM that's dual channel cause it looks like you added an old stick of DDR333.

 

[Ronco Rox]

i don't know if its an old stick because this computer was pre-built by eMachines.

 

[Kuberr]

Did it come with 1GB or did you add 512MB?

 

[Ronco Rox]

it came with 2 sticks of 512