What to upgrade first? HP

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So I just inherited an older HP a250n... it's got a lot of miles :P


Here are the specs
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00024879&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=326411&dlc=en&lang=en#N407

So, I do some gameing, a lot of downloading and uploading... I really value fast and reliability. When I play games or have 15 different applications open. I also plan to upgrade towards media editing. When I upgrade I want to upgrade to the best but it's going to happen more so over time then all at once. So I am curious what should I upgrade first? Motherboard/CPU? The HD is big enough for now. I was thinking a motherboard and ram first, use the old CPU then switch that out second.

If you guys have any tips I'm looking foward to hearing them.

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That mobo has AGP and uses DDR. Both of those are fairly expensive to upgrade now(compared to similar speced PCI-Express or DDR2) Plus I beleive that processor is socket 478, which is also harder to come buy.

I wouldn't even bother trying to upgrade that system... My suggestion would be to save up and build a new one...
 
what's your budget? You will prolly have to buy an OS also, your pre-built OS may not recognize the ugrade
 
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That one looks alright. What about a CPU? I am researching overclocking and would like 3.2 or 3.6.

Thanks man for the free advice!

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