£200 to blow...

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I've been told to buy something to the value of £200 courtesy of my boss and I've not really got any ideas lol

My current setup:

Asus P5Q
Q6600 + Arctic Freeezer 7
Silverstone case
FSP 700w PSU
GTX285
1TB F1 (SATA)
500GB WD (SATA)
160GB (SATA)
Samsung 226BW Monitor.
Saitek Eclipse 2
Senheiser PC161's
Razer Lachesis Mouse
I've probably got about £100 of my own too.

Just wondered what people would do/buy in this situation. If I ask for cash instead I will get taxed on it.

Thanks,

G
 
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That could do fine for a bit longer but if hes insisted you spend the 200, Possibly use the extra 100 then flog off the q6600 mobo and ram, and get an i5 or something?
 
yeah as ajstan said either go get yourself a SSD and a better cooler or option b) sell your 285 and put the extra cash towards a 5870 vapour x :D
 
I think GPU, SSD and CPU should be the things you should be looking at for a performance increase :) Plus selling the old hardware will give you some mroe cash towards better stuff as well :)
 
I'd buy a Dell 2209WA (if you use £50 of your own money too). It really is a fantastic monitor, and running a dual monitor setup with your current Samsung will make for an awesome computing experience.
 
IMO he should keep his GTX285 because its a great card and it should allow him to play all the games currently available as well as future ones at max settings for at least 1 year and a half.You should buy an SSD,a good cooler and overclock that Q6600.
 
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Are SSD's really that amazing?

I've never used a PC with an SSD, but there are a lot of people in here suggesting I should!

As it stands my C: partition is more than 64GB so I would need to sort that out.
 
illogik said:
Quite impressive. Gotta get me one of these SSD's!
Click to expand...

Oh yeah, the outlay and reduced storage capacity really are worth the 10 second premium in startup.

I'll wait until they are a decent price/size ratio for a decent SLC drive.

My RAID5 array would outperform an SSD in everything but seek time anyway.
 
Another option would be to sell the whole rig, Add the cash to the cash you already have.
And then get yourself a full new spec. Obviously dont sell the peripherals :p

Although the Q6600 is still a great processor, So SSD OS drive is a good option
 
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