Help, overclocking or upgrading?

i have been looking at other guides but i was wondering if anyone knows how to overclock a Hp a630n. Of if better, what major upgrades could i make to it. I know i would have ot upgrade the graphics card for sure, its pretty gay.Here are the specs i found.

intel p4 hyper threading tech. 512mb pc3200 ddr sdram memory.
160 bg, 7200 rpm serial ata hard drive. intel graphics media accelerator with up to 128mb shared memory. Processor speed 2.80 ghz. 1mb L2 cache, 800 Mhz front side bus. Is there anything else i should post about it?

thanks in advance.

 

you could upgrade the processor and the memory in that system

the highest CPU you could get would be the p4 3.6GHz and depending on how many spare slots you have for memory you could upgrade to at least 1GB of RAM

Another good performance booster would be to get a Graphics card rather than using crappy onboard graphics which use up your system memory

 

Alright, well about the ram... I was looking at selection and they dont say sdram. So i was wondering if the other type of ram would fit into my socket.

 

lol your not looking for SDRAM your looking for DDR RAM

make sure that you buy 400MHz DDR or PC3200 DDR (both the same thing by the way) and you will be ok.

 

oh alright..well one more question. Would ddr2 ram work on it? It seems to be better

 

no

DDR2 is different and has more pins so it doesnt fit or work in a standard DDR slot

 

I've upgraded my ram to 1024 mb, but i was wondering what graphics card would improve my perfeormance. Keep in my mind that this isn't my gaming system. I am also on a budget. Since i probably wont change my processor anytime soon, i was wondering if i should overclock my cpu. thx for the help.
ps. once i get a new graphics card, would that overrun the integrated media card?

 

if its not a system for gaming then any graphics card will do something cheap and cheerful like an nvidia 5200 or if you have a little more cash a 6200A.

you only really need to worry about graphics performance if your going to be doing a lot of intense graphical design, video editing or gaming.

Overclocking can be good in some cases but i others it can actually take away from the performance. i personally wouldnt advise overclocking because of the risk of damage involved