Help With Upgrading My Computer

[TruthOfSeafood]

Right now my computer is unable to play most of the newer games on the market. I want to upgrade my computer so it is a decent gaming computer that is capable of handling these higher end games. I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions of what parts I need to upgrade on my computer to fufill these games' requirements and to have a good computer.

Right now my specs are:
Motherboad- Asus A7N8X-X NForce 2 chipset
CPU- AMD Athlon 2500+ XP
Memory- 256 MB
Video Card- GeForce 4 MX440

Im not really sure on what parts are worth keeping and what I need to upgrade.
Thanks for Your Help!

 

[kof2000]

do you really need to change the whole computer? either that or you can just upgrade the ram and the video card.

maybe 512-1gb ram and a decent card like a 9800xt or a 6600gt-6800gt

is it agp slot?

 

[TruthOfSeafood]

Yah the motherboard has an agp slot. I didn't think I needed to upgrade the whole thing as I had heard the 2500+ was a pretty decent CPU, but I didn't know if it and the motherboard were outdated or anything.

 

[dragon2309]

2500+ is more than capable of playing most newer games, i would agree with KOF and suggest you simply upgrade your RAM and graphics card. CPU upgrade is not really needed at this stage and your mobo is fine too.

 

[TruthOfSeafood]

Thanks a lot that really cleared up a lot of questions I had.

 

[Praetor]

Yeah for sure on the videocard but also note that a newer videocard may require a beefier (i.e., newer) power supply too