My Super Lame Computer. Upgrade Help.

Long story short, i want to build a computer that will allow me to play games. It doesnt have to be the absolute best of everything. I just want it to last me a while without requiring an upgrade 6 months from now. I don't know anything about computers except for a few basics, so any help would be appreciated.

My budget is $1500

Current Rig:

CASE: Xblade mid-tower

MONITOR: BENQ FP71G+ 17" LCD

PSU: 300W

MOTHERBOARD: Asus P5KPL-CM, G31/VGA/PCIE (Graphics Integrated)

HARD DRIVE: Seagate 80GB 8MB SATA 3.5" HDD

RAM: Kingston 2G DDR2-800

PROCESSOR: Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 @ 1.86GHz

OS: Windows XP Home Edition 32-bit.

Also, is this worth upgrading or should i just get a whole new pc?

Long story short, i want to build a computer that will allow me to play games. It doesnt have to be the absolute best of everything. I just want it to last me a while without requiring an upgrade 6 months from now. I don't know anything about computers except for a few basics, so any help would be appreciated.

My budget is $1500

Current Rig:

CASE: Xblade mid-tower

MONITOR: BENQ FP71G+ 17" LCD

PSU: 300W

MOTHERBOARD: Asus P5KPL-CM, G31/VGA/PCIE (Graphics Integrated)

HARD DRIVE: Seagate 80GB 8MB SATA 3.5" HDD

RAM: Kingston 2G DDR2-800

PROCESSOR: Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 @ 1.86GHz

OS: Windows XP Home Edition 32-bit.

Also, is this worth upgrading or should i just get a whole new pc?

Sigh_han

For starters, uve got quite a good setup, so dun bother wif the mobo and the processor, its decent enough to play the games. Anyway, the 2 things u shud look at is the PSU n the graphics card. Well obviously u know that.. haha.. So wat i can say is that if you want to play games at max settings, u need at least a 9 series gcard.. maybe a 9600GT if not a 8600 or 8800 GT... im not sure whether ur slot is PCIe 1.0 or 2.0 though, but either way both cards will work.

But u need to upgrade your PSU unit. If i'm not mistaken, your PSU unit should be standard dimension, so just go ahead and buy any PSU (i would recommend at least a 400-450W PSU). Just rmbr to get good brands as some brands, although they state it is 450W, it only produces 400W or lower and are unstable so it might underproduce power when your card needs it and results in BSOD or crashes. But to be safe, bring ur com to the techs at the shop, they should know how to fix u up :). But in most cases, its not that serious. LOL. just stating the worst.

Hope this helps. :)