What to upgrade with Asus A7v-e?

[jbiss]

I have a freind's computer that I told them I would look at. It is an Asus A7v-e mobo, Duron 750, 512mb pc100 memory, with a 20gb 5400rpm drive running Win Xp Pro. All ram slots are full. From what I can find the mobo will support a Tbird running at 1Ghz. She wants it to start up faster.

What should I upgrade first? 7200rpm drive? 1Ghz Athlon cpu?

[Sentential]

Startups are determined by the CPU and RAM mostly. If you are looking to upgrade the RAM that would probably force an entire new upgrade since you would then need a new CPU, RAM and mobo.

So because of this I would focus on the CPU. According to Asus the highest CPU she can support is:

Duron 1300 (Model 7)(Morgan) 1.05. 1008

Fortunatly its quite cheap and is available for purchase here
http://www.axiontech.com/prdt.php?src=FG&item=36879