We were just in Humbolt, SK today, just over an hour northeast of Saskatoon. There, we stopped in at a computer place where they specialize in custom builds. I am starting to wonder whether it would be cheaper to keep our hard drive and do an upgrade, or whether it would be best to just sell this one cheap and buy brand new. It is the same one we had before, Zeus - a Packard Bell case. We only had the 40 GB hard drive added last year, and the on/off switch was also fixed within the past year or so. We were given an estimate of $400-600 to upgrade if we kept our tower case. All that would need to be done in our case was a new motherboard, complete with 128 AGP for a video card (it appears that this is standard now), and they only install athlon motherboards from what we could see. When they would do the upgrade, they will reinstall everything for us. From what they suggest, we already have an adequate 40 GB hard drive, so that would not be touched. Would 128 MB AGP be lots for games or would we need to jump to 256 right away. We are not yet in a situation to do a complete upgrade, but would it be wiser as tower prices come further down that we upgrade our tower or that we go completely brand new?
