Hello!

Before I pose my important question, let me tell you that I am a new member of this forum. I have come here to look for an answer to the question that so interests me.

Here it is: I have an old computer that needs definate upgrading. Really, I am replacing everything on it except for the hard drives which are scuzzy based and work fine for now.... Later I will replace those too. Here is what I have to get: a new motherboard, a proceesor, 512 megabytes or higher of DDR Ram, a video card, a box, and a power supply. With my budget of under $1,000, what would hardware would you suggest? I was thinking of an Intel board with a Pentium 4 2.2 processor, the ram or course, and the GeForce 4 Ti4400. Tell me if this is the way to go. Should I go for a higher performing video card. All suggestions would be helpful.

By the way, should I upgrade from Windows 98 to XP? I hear that is a bad choice. What do you think.