Wise computer-upgrade advice needed

[Kuli24]

Hey, I have a Dell
I am having slight framerate issue in Need for Speed Most Wanted due to out of date hardware. What should I upgrade first? (I think my processor is my bottleneck since it doesn't matter how high or low I set the graphics in the game, it always runs the same fps)

Dell Dimension 4500
D845EPT2 (mainboard?)
General Information :
NorthBridge : Intel i845E
SouthBridge : 82801DB (ICH4) LPC Interface Bridge

NorthBridge Information :
Architecture : Northbridge
Manufacturer : Intel (Intel Corporation)
Revision : E0
Front Side Bus Speed : 99.7 MHz
Bus Speed : 398.8 MHz (QDR)
Memory Bus Speed : 132.9 MHz

Chipset Information :
Type : DDR-SDRAM PC2100
Frequency : 133 MHz

General Information :
DIMM1 (RAS 11, RAS 12) : 256 (Double Bank) - Standard, Parity, ECC
DIMM2 (RAS 11, RAS 12) : 512 (Double Bank) - Standard, Parity, ECC

Model : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
Codename : Northwood

128mb ATI Radeon 9500@9700 (softmod) (8 pipelines)

Also, which parts would you recommend buying?

PS: My graphics card is AGP, so a motherboard with both AGP and PCI would be nice if I need a new motherboard.

Input very much appreciated.
Thanks
Jeff

 

[diduknowthat]

don't save the ram, its pc2100...too slow for today's standards. and like syschat said, it's probably not worth upgrading cause that system is too out of date. And if you want a new gpu you'd probably have to buy another dell psu cause the one you have definetly isn't enough. But if you really want to upgrade then i guess cpu would be first.