Upgrade suggestions?

Curious

Curious

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What would YOU do?

I have the spec as follows, and due to my graphic-card being somewhat faulty, I am in need of a new one.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ (Socket 939)
ATI Radeon X1900 XT-X 512MB
Tagan TG530-U15 530W
OCZ 2GB PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum Series 2-3-2-5
NEC MultiSync® LCD20WGX2 20.1" (1680 x 1050)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty

Would you just get a new 19xx or go 8800/2900 or make an even bigger upgrade and get a new mobo, with new cpu and whatnot? What are your thoughts and what would you do in my place?

Curious
 
Most obvious question is what does your system not do at the moment that you want it to (other than the graphics card not working)? If it is basically fine then I'd just get a new graphics card because the other route is more expensive and will probably offer limited benefit initally at least since you have a fairly decent system currently. :)
 
That system looks fine, is it overclocked at all?

you could eek some more performance out of that setup easily.
 
It is not clocked at all. I just had the thought of getting an 8800 or 2900 to replace the 1900, and wondered if i would just feel held back by my cpu and ram.

Graphic-wise games runs (or did run) mostly fluent with the ocasional to rare hiccup. I like fluent and good-looking graphics :)

Curious.
 
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If you want to go for an 8800GTS or 2900XT then your CPU will not be much of a bottleneck, particularly if you overclock it and there is definitely potential there given the motherboard and Ram to do so. You may want to switch to an aftermarket CPU cooler if you find the CPU gets a bit hot with the overclocking but try it with what you have first. :)
 
i have an x2 4400 and a 1gb of 400mhz and upgraded to a 8800gtx and whilst it ran fine, i just felt a little held back so im in the process of building a new core 2 duo setup. Ive seen benchmarks where core 2 duo's clocked highly give big benefits in certain games/certain parts of games.
 
Got a Scythe ninja for the silence of it. Is it good enough for clocking?

From the looks of it and the suggestion it seems the road to go first :) Maybe when some of the new games come out around winter-time I´ll go overboard and up the rest of the config :) But lets see what I can get out of this rig and if i get dissappointed :)
 
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