Any big upgrades planned for this coming year

I can't actually see myself upgrading anything for another year, perhaps I'll switch to Vista much later on in the year, but no planned hardware changes.

I would love to but have only had this new build since October, So far i am very happy with it too.

Maybe a new monitor and/or speakers to complement the X-FI soon but the pc is fine so far.

But i will keep an eye on the Kentsfield prices!

A Graphics card ..defo.

I've been swapping equipment about lately and my Socket 939 setup will be going to my eldest daughter.

And on my machine # 2 I will be adding a SATA 2 hard disk of at least 300Gb, possibly 500Gb, for storage.

This is because I've removed the two 35Gb Raptor drives in RAID 0 and have four hard disk caddies to house the main primary HDD so I can try various Linux Distros and run old games on Win 98.

I had three storage drives in there originally, 2 x 120Gb & 1 x 160Gb but because of the layout within the case and the positioning of the hard disk caddy (on an IDE connection) it means I can only use one SATA 120Gb hard drive in there atm, the other two drives are PATA devices.

So, I'll be connecting another SATA 2 hard disk to one of the three remaining SATA ports and transfer all data from the two PATA drives to that.

I may also buy a sound card and a new 5.1 speaker setup.

This is because, for some odd reason, I couldn't get my Hercules 5.1 speaker setup to work with my new computer (see sig) using onboard sound. I could use either the bass speaker or centre speaker, but not both. Updating drivers didn't help.

The speaker setup works fine on my other machine using onboard sound, quite odd.

So I may go for a Creative X-Fi Gamers card and a Logitech 5.1 speaker setup, but not sure yet.

I will probably get the hard disk in the near future but I'm going to have to earn some more money for the sound card and speakers.

Right now I'm using a Logitech 2.1 speaker system on my main machine which sounds good but it ain't 5.1, is it?

In the middle of building my Kentsfield rig as we speak - but maybe look at upgrading my X2 3800 rigs later this year

Buying a Laptop so not much money left after that.
Happy with the system at the moment, even though it was built by Chimps of North London
Does the job i bought it for, may get a spring clean in a week or so to get rid of dust inside etc.

Probably some decent 7.1 speakers to compliment the rest of my rig.

and eventually, and i mean very eventual... Vista..

and after that, a DX 10 card.

money money money...

Well worth the money Flops, Especially for the games. I am very impressed with my Extreme Music, The positional audio is very good.

Cpu first, then when nvidias next graphics core comes out- my video card

Definitely want to increase my RAM, I multitask far to much for my 512 to cope with,
& I want to increase my harddrive memory. I thought 55G would be plenty when I bought this but...

But money is the killer,
don't know if I'll manage to get this done in the next year.
At the moment begining to wonder if we can even afford to go camping for our honeymoon
Let along indulge in such yummy luxuries.

Mind you... some Hardrive space to put the wedding-Honeymoon photos on would be nice
Have to do some major disc&Deleting before the wedding.
Too much sh*t on this comp.