Hi folks,Looking for some advice on upgrading my system:P4 2.4 533 FSBGeForce FX 5200 128mb DDR1G DDRWD 60G Caviar DMA/ATA-100Wondering how my $$$ would be best spent to increase performance.Upgrading to a 3.02G with HT ?Purchasing a new WD Raptor @ 10000 rpm ?Purhcasing an identical WD Hard drive and using the RAID capabilities of my MoBo?Purchasing a new Video card.Any advice would be [email protected]

I'd look at the video card first. The CPU speed is OK - going to a 3Ghz chip will help framerates some but the change won't be dramatic (maybe 10-15%). HyperThreading won't help and may, in fact, slow things down a bit. RAID will make no difference at all (but the second drive is a good idea anyway just for backup and peace-of-mind). The RAM is fine and a switching to a faster HDD won't make a noticeable performance change. But the video card is killing you :-) . Replace that with a 9800 Pro, or newer, and you'll be a much happier simmer.Doug

Agree with most but RAID do make wonders for load times ;)You can go two ways. You can get a WD RAPTOR for windows and applications.You can have the second harddrive you already got in your sig and partition it so you have the swap file on the first partition and have the second partition for all kind of junk that don