Dell 512mb Cd

Need advice about old Dell desktop I resurrected...?
I managed to have enough old parts in my room to assemble a decent desktop. It's a Dell (has a clam shell style case, if that helps date it), a DVD drive (read only), a CD drive (burn), a P4 processor, 512MB of DDR (Might be 256; I'm at work I can't look at it), 20GB HD (adding two spare 40GB HD's later), Sound Blaster Live! card (black with a DA-15 plug) and a 128MB ATI card (AGP8x). What's the most I can upgrade this? There's a local computer/gaming shop that gives me pretty good deals on older stuff. Just ideas. I'm thinking more about ram and cpu. I've got Fruity Loops and Acoustica Mixcraft on it for my music projects. The only games I'll be playing on it are Drakan, Quake, and Doom.
If your motherboard does indeed use DDR RAM, that pretty much dates it in the 2001-2005 range, so I'd expect it to have a socket 478.
If that's the case, you can probably upgrade the CPU to a 3+ GHz Pentium 4 (single core) and the RAM to 2 GB. That puts it at roughly the performance level of a modern netbook. Run CPU-Z to get an accurate description of the current CPU, along with FSB info. http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Go to http://www.crucial.com and run their memory tool to get information about the existing memory.
Surprisingly, the AGP video card can actually be upgraded to a pretty respectible Radeon 4670, but I wouldn't recommend doing that.
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