Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

[A Black Falcon]

Why would you need to upgrade your OS? Just use it on the new hardware. I've helped people go through that whole process. A call to MS takes care of XP Home issues well enough.

DJ, remember that I have ME. I'm not exactly enamored of getting XP six to nine months before Vista comes out... if I'm going to have to go to a new, vastly different OS, I'd rather it not be one that'll be obsolete in MS's opinion a few months later... AGAIN... (win3.1 in early 1995, win95 in summer 1997, win98 in late 1999/early 2000, winme in september 2001, within a few months of XP's release...)

As far as video cards, yeah the price of those has jumped more than anything else. I was hoping for a bit of a dive, like the Great RAM Price Drop of ages gone by, back when RAM got so cheap they were giving it away in cereal, but that hasn't borne out. Still, as I said, I can get you a good price on a complete computer upgrade in spite of that.

How so?

Here's the one thing you should keep in mind. eBay exists.

I've never bought anything online... not myself at least (this computer was ordered online, but I didn't pay for it myself...)

And anyway, this thing's too old to be worth much of anything. The 110GBs of HDD are nice (full, I need more, but nice) (40+80), but I want to keep those... but a P4 1.5ghz with a 32MB Geforce2, 384MB PC800 RDRAM, a DVD drive, SBLive! Value...

Depends on what you want. I got a satisfactory GeForce 6800 with 256 MB of video RAM for about $200. I can run my games in the highest resolution my moniter can support with an average frame rate of around 30-40 FPS. If I take the resolution down a few notches, I can get a steady frame rate of 60, and if I wanted to spend more, I could get a second one and likely get a steady frame rate higher than that.

I want something I'll be able to use for a few years, like this computer...