Computer Help - Need Suggestions

[WHI55L]

Yo

My video card recently decided to have a meltdown, so I think its time to update my computer system

I have around 1k to spend on a CPU, memory, videocard, motherboard and maybe Hard drive

I dont need a system for playing games, really the only thing i need it for is to surf the net and rip DVD movies to Divx..

I currently have a P3 733 with 256mbRAM, Geforce DDR 32mb videocard, 20 gig HDD and it takes forever to rip a DVD...

At the moment im tossing up for :

CPU

Intel Pentium4 2.0AGHz Skt 478 CPU (512k cache) w/Intel Cooler - $374 or $423 for a 2.4GHz

VideoCard

Albatron MX480V GeForce4 MX440-8X 3.6ns 64mb DDR AGP Video Card w/video in/out & DVI - $225

Motherboard? no idea can someone suggest just a simple one which can support AGP x8 and also 5 pci slots?

RAM

PC-2100 512mb 184-pin DDR SDRAM unbuffered DDR266 whats the difference if any between the different 2700, 3200 etc?
- $291

HDD

Maxtor 60GB DiamondMax Plus9 ATA133 IDE Hard drive, 7200RPM, 2mb cache - $198

Are these good prices? Im copying and pasting them off the auspcmarket.com.au site

NIP007 can u do any better??

[Focus]

ok for what your talking about it sounds like you need a new mother board, memory, and video card I seg. mother board go with a soyo dragon platum, great boards go with an AMD cpu there just as fast and there cheper seeing your not going to be playing a lot off games and stuff no need for an G4 a video card sick with Nivdia or ATI make sure it say made by ATI not powered by ATI and momory I use crucial its good momory. Hope this helps and remeber you get what you pay for so. good luck

[TunaFlyBattery]

AMD Duron 1.3 Ghz
Gigabyte GA-7VAX
256Mb PC2100 Ram
64Mb GF4 MX440


Don't pay more that.. $650-$700 for the above.

-Daniel

[WHI55L]

its cool

just bought the video card... still havent got it, dumb fuken delivery driver delivered it to the wrong house.... now I gotta hope that they'll give it back or i'll smash some heads :eek: