I dont know a lot about 'puters, but would like your comments on this upgrade that was suggested to me by a few IT folks at my office.mobo:gigabyte 7VRX 1.0 to MSI K8N Neo Platinumvideo:GF TI4200 128 to GF 6800 128cpu:AMD2100 (1.7 ghz) to AMD 64 3200+few other changes300w to 450w (required??)1gig ram to 1gig pc3200 DDRI understand that this should be fairly well balanced.Comments and or suggestions?

Hi Mike,Looks fine except for one issue... upgradability.AMD is at this time phasing out the 754 series CPU's in favor of the 939's. If you plan on keeping the system you outlined above for 12-24 months then it would be quite nice. But by the end of this year (and probably sooner) 939 based systems will be the norm. The only M/B available today for the 939 CPU's uses a VIA chipset, hence the reason I won't upgrade now. I'll wait until some nVidia chipset boards are available for the 939. Also, that 6800 will be cheaper in a few months.It's too bad that AMD is ending the 754 series of CPU... they offer very nice performance at a nice price.Hope this helps,Greg

thanks...I usually just buy a setup and dont touch it for a couple of years, so its sounds like this should still be reasonable to get, spending about $800 US.

MSI boards are good performers, nice video card and I would definitely get a bigger power supply since the Nvidia cards use lots of power