5punk

ok, so ive got about £150 sat in paypal, earning interest for fat americans, and ive decided to rectify this with some eBaying.

The dilemma is this: I could, just about, get a psp and maybe a game or two for that many monies. However, my ailing computer is in need of help.

at the moment im running an Athlon 2500+, with a gig of ram and a 9800pro. Is it worth spending 150 on, or shall I wait till i have more disposable monies (in a few months) and just get a whole new computer?

If an upgrade, what?

how fast is the ram? (it could have implications on what upgrading to do)

pretty much the same setup and spending amount that ive been thinking about, came close to getting one of these http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=97827 to keep me going till i start earning minimum wage
looks good value for moneys from some reviews i checked out, but to be quite frank i r teh noob anyway when it comes to things like this

the memory is 2x512meg blocks of PC2700 DDR-SDRAM, and the motherboard is an MSI K7N2. I think.

As far as the PSP goes, how long would you actually spend playing it? I recently calculated that approximately 0% of my average week was I in a position to operate a handheld games console, as I drive everywhere I go and er.. do stuff when I get there.

FatherJack wrote:As far as the PSP goes, how long would you actually spend playing it? I recently calculated that approximately 0% of my average week was I in a position to operate a handheld games console, as I drive everywhere I go and er.. do stuff when I get there.

I'm currently unemployed. I've got all the time in the world.

in my opinion you should upgrade to 64bit cpu. My AMD Athlon 64 3000+ and Gigabyte K8-MF mobo cost me 130 quid from ebuyer

really comes down to current spec.

there's no need to go x64 if you have a crappy AGP card (and you'll be wasting money on an agp mobo)

however, 7800GSs will add a lot of life to an older but still alive machine.