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Originally Posted by raghajabooy
I am planning to spend about $1500 - $2000
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You could buy a full system for that much.
Seriously, what you have is by no means poo. I recently got my X2 4600+ for ~$525, sold my old 3500+ 1st gen core for $140. If you do something similar, you are still only at around $400. Pop in a high end GPU, that's another $500. If you absolutely must by a new 939 board (which I don't see why you'd need one unless you are on AGP) that's another ~$150 (though if you are going to change the MB you likely would just want to build to an AM2 with DDR2-800), add on another gig at ~$100, bam, that is what (not counting MB) like ~$1,000 total.
You aren't all that behind save for graphics.
I'd say do that - up to X2, +1 gig ram, + new GPU - and then save the rest for a major upgrade at/beyond '08 when the next socket comes out and has DDR3 with PCI express generation 2.