new gaming system

[hkgonra]

A good friend of mine is looking to upgrade.
He uses nis pc for FPS games primarily Americas Army. He currently has this system.
Dell 4700
3.0 p4
1gb of ram
x850pro 256mb

He is looking at this dell system
( Yes I know he could probably do better on his own but an OEM system is better for him and for me I don't want to have to support it 24/7)

Dimension E521 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+ Desktop + 19" LCD for $529
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs
160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
16x DVD+/-RW Drive
19 inch E197FP Analog Flat Panel
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE Integrated Graphics GPU
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio

First off , will this be a noticable upgrade for him ?
Second , what video card should we get to add to it ?

 

[Xenocide]

good starter system, im trying to get my girlfriends dad to buy that for his new home desktop

 

[BossBorot]

I would try to get a 8600 series card for that system when they launch around mid april.

 

[Douken]

yea just add a card and ur off

 

[hkgonra]

good starter system, im trying to get my girlfriends dad to buy that for his new home desktop

I realize it is not a super high end system but would it be a noticable difference over the one he has ?

 

[Douken]

if you put a video card it will be noticeable... I mean VERY noticeable

 

[nvidiaOCmaster]

Make sure to upgrade the power unit too.

That CPU may cause a slight bottleneck.

 

[hkgonra]

how about this for the video card ?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130082

EVGA 320-P2-N811-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card

 

[hkgonra]

Make sure to upgrade the power unit too.

That CPU may cause a slight bottleneck.

If the cpu is the bottleneck how about these upgrades ?


AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+ [Included in Price]

AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4200+ [add $50]

AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4600+ [add $100]

AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 5000+ [add $150]

 

[nvidiaOCmaster]

4200-4600+ Sounds about right. Wait for an AMD guru to confirm that though.