Legion Hardware has some advice for upgrading a computer to play the new FPS games; they spend less in total than many would on just a video card.  Drop by to see how they did it.
“Forget about your Athlon64 and Pentium 4 processors for a moment if you can and look at what has been achieved here. For just $317 AUD ($235 US) we have turned a dying Pentium III 533MHz computer into something more than capable of carrying out all the required work related tasks. Then if you were to go one step further and couple this motherboard, memory and processor combo with an affordable graphics card, you would have a gaming computer that could easily play Quake 4 in all its glory.”

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