A new computer for moi

[SetBuilder]

I'm not a computer expert, but wouldn't it make sense to leave the upgradable parts till you have time to upgrade them?

I would logically go the other route, especially if I was planning on upgrading things as needed (which has been expressed by the original poster a number of times).  The graphics card would have to be scraped to be upgraded.  The ram... well, plan ahead for an upgrade, but buy whats in your budget first.

That way when more money comes in your left with a better system.  Rather than staring down another investment in an expensive graphics card.

Granted, I don't know much about computer upgrading anymore (I mainly use a laptop these days), but its hard to reason that 6 months from now it'd be better to have 2 gigs of ram and 128 meg graphics card with no where to go but replace the graphics card I just bought, than to have the space to upgrade with more ram.

Cheers,

Munk
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RAM is usually more expensive to upgrade than video cards. Also, the more RAM you have, the longer before you MUST upgrade. Also, the video card that costs $400 today will cost maybe $100 in 8 months to a year, while the RAM won't go down by more than 10-15%. In a way though, you are correct, just not between those two parts.