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If you plan on upgrading the case, I wouldn't even bother touching it. Once you upgrade the case, you'll end up transplanting everything from the old one into the new one. If the current setup takes DDR ram, you might be in luck, but I'd get more memory & just bite the bullet later.

When you go to upgrade other stuff, you'll have to do it all at once. A faster cpu will require a newer motherboard and a different heatsink/fan unit. Your existing video card may not be compatibile with your new motherboard, so you'll want a new one of those too. Then the memory may not be compatible, so you'll need new memory too, and to top it off, your old power supply might not be able to supply enough power for the whole new setup.

After all that, you'll end up re-installing windows because it can't deal with swapping out that much shit at once but then you'll say, 'gee, I wish I had a 300GB drive to go with all of this new stuff, since I'm re-installing anyways.

So just upgrade them in this box, and then later, go to newegg.com or mwave.com & pick out a nice barebones setup w/ a case that you like w/ a decent power supply, decent motherboard, cpu, 2Gb of ram, a nice video card, and a big phat hard drive & build the whole thing from scratch. This can be done for about $450-600 if you don't buy the latest-and-greatest.