[Moloch]

have:
p3 500mhz genuintel
128 mgb ram
Hercules 3d prophet ultra
SB Live! wave out
DEfault system bios
Win ME
Acer LCD screen
Labtec Keyboard
Microsoft Intellipoint Optical mouse
All this stuff came from Dell, cept the vid card, screen, mouse, and keyboard

Want:
2ghz processor (requires new motherboard)
512 mb ram
^in addition to what I already have. However, they told me at microcenter that I couldn't just put a new motherboard and processor in place of my old one, because the dellness on the hard drive would recognize it as non-dell and wouldn't accept it because to reinstall my OS after a format, I would have to use a dell recovery CD which we have. A non-dell XP is several hundred so With that, mobo costs, and processor costs, combine those and it would cost as much to buy a new PC. I haven't done the math yet, but they offered me this:

512mb ram
2ghz processor
some mobo, don't remember, 500 mhz FSB, I think, maybe a bit less
32 mb SHARED memory vid card
some sound card
standard ports
Win XP
the above and other small shit for 729.
I have about 500 saved but I can get maybe 200 more from my rents to pay back later.
btw, how much would an AMD Athlon XP cost? I think the one at MC was a 2 gig or 1.8 gig and the processor was 209, I dunno if this is overpriced or not. I don't wanna get an athlon though, I heard they just crash when they overheat, but p4s regulate their clock speed so they don't overheat.