yeah, I'm planning on the video card costing about 250-300 dollars, which is another reason I figure it's best to upgrade the other components first. They'll (theoretically) last longer and I think provide a greater overall improvement to my computing experience (albeit, while not improving gameplay all that much for the time being).
So, any recommendations? I'm not really sure how important it is to get a 64-bit processor these days (keep in mind I'll be using the same processor for at least a couple years). How much stuff really takes advantage of it right now? Is an Athlon64 3000+ considered slow these days? Again, I don't know. When I got my 1.4GHz processor, it was considered pretty fast - the AthlonXP didn't even come out until about 4 months later.
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