Originally Posted by Aeogenia

As for upgrading the CPU that board does not support anything above 5600+. So getting a 6000+ is not a smart thing to do, and you will need to update the BIOS for any other upgrade. A 5600+ or a 5200+ 65W processor, and a ATI HD 4830 512MB will do for what you want to do with it.

I've used a set-up with a AMD4600+, 2GB RAM and a ATI4850-512MB. And it ran all games of 2008 without a fuss maxed on 1440*900.

Originally Posted by Mudfrog

My co worker is on a very limited upgrade budget of $150 so I need the best bang for buck.

He currently has a
Athlon X2 (2.0Ghz)
8800GS 340MB
2GB RAM
Biostar TForce TF520-A2 mobo

He wants to upgrade the cpu and gpu. He games at 1440x900 mainly playing source mods and a few other games like COD4.

I think we are going with the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (3.0GHz) $55 so we need a video card that will be a good bang for the buck upgrade for $100. I'm thinking either a 4850 or GTS 250. Any other suggestions?