If this was your system...what would you upgrade first?

[jmoore2001]

If you had this system, what would be the first thing you would upgrade or add?

Abit NF7-M
XP 2100+
(1) 512mb Kingmax pc3200
(2) 40gb 7200 IBM hdd's
pioneer 16x DVD slot loading
plextor 24x CDRW
enermax 431w eg465p whisper power supply
gf4 ti4600 video card

(not including keyboard/mouse/speakers/etc.)

[Beemer]

I'd go for the RAM. It supports 3 DIMM DDR 200/266/333 (Max. 3 GB)

Get 1gig min.

The Athlon XP, 2700+ @333MHz CPU would be nice. (2.183GHz)

Cheers!

[DallasDon]

First thing I would add is a good cable lock, cause somebody is gonna steal if from your dorm room.

If you MUST upgrade something, I suggest a 2500+Barton processor. The rest of the system should handle 200 FSB.

You could trade the old processor for a Logitech Wireless MX duo, so you could lock them up, too.

[John Prophet]

Maybe depends on what you use the system for.

Maybe depends also on what FSB speeds the motherboard supports.

Its pretty stout as it is.

Evidently the Barton 2500 is a pretty popular cpu these days for price/performance.

JP

[Omardeth]

i would add another 512 of memory to take advangate of the dual channel memory support . and thats about it . if you want faster cpu over clock the one you have .

[nukes]

Maybe SCSI or RAID hard drives. That's a pretty sweet system, and I wouldn't bother upgrading unless you have money to burn. If you want a faster CPU, overclock that one, you could probably gain some performance that way, but it isn't worth putting more RAM in unless you will use it (or want the dual channel), and the graphics card should do you for some time yet.
One thing I would suggest is to buy an optical mouse if you don't already have one, they're great, and last pretty much forever.