Hardware upgrade advice

[blag]

I'm looking to upgrade my pc so I can play games like Black n White. Heres my pc spec:

Processor
Model : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III
Speed : 601MHz
Performance Rating : PR721 (estimated)
Type : Standard
L2 On-board Cache : 256kB ECC Synchronous ATC (8-way, 32 byte line size)

Mainboard
Bus(es) : ISA X-Bus AGP PCI USB i2c/SMBus
MP Support : No
MP APIC : No
System BIOS : Award Software International, Inc. HW.27.09(QHW.09.05)
Mainboard : Hewlett-Packard HP Brio BA600 System Board
Total Memory : 127MB SDRAM

Chipset 1
Model : Intel Corporation 82443BX/ZX 440BX/ZX CPU to PCI Bridge (AGP Implemented)
Front Side Bus Speed : 1x 100MHz (100MHz data rate)
Total Memory : 128MB SDRAM
Memory Bus Speed : 1x 100MHz (100MHz data rate)

Video System
Monitor/Panel : IBM 6332 E74
Adapter : Matrox MGA-G200 AGP

Physical Storage Devices
Hard Disk : GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE47 (9 GB)
Hard Disk : GENERIC NEC FLOPPY DISK
CD-ROM/DVD : MATSHITA DVD-ROM SR-8585
CD-ROM/DVD : HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8400B



Any one care to recommend the most cost effective upgrade i could get? i have about £400 to spend

Many thanks in advance

[elias49]

The single best improvement you can make is adding RAM. Add as much as the board can take.
Not familiar with your video card, but that would be MY next recommendation. You can get a very good card with 64MB RAM (or more) on board for around $100 - $150.

[milomorai]

your entire system is marginal for playing a game that complex. you really need to get a new motherboard and processor, graphics card and more ram. might be better off purchasing a new pc-you can put one together for $600-1000 that would be able to handle it.

[blag]

thanx guys thats very useful - i found out my motherboard could support a 700MHz CPU...RUBBISH , so nu motherboard and bits it is