possible upgrade, opinions please

Cyanide

Cyanide

Cyanide

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Hi guys,

Just found out I'm due a tasty tax refund so I'm contemplating giving my system a bit of an upgrade. Current running a Q6600 with 4GB ram on an Asus P5e with a pair of HD3870's all on Vista 64 and displayed on a 24" screen

Not sure if it's worth it as I've not been keeping up to date on things but I do a lot of photoshopping (CS4) as well as moohassive amounts of gaming.

Here's what I was thinking (keeping my current hdd's and gpu's) -

AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1055T 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) £157.44
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Retail (Full Version) £99.99
Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 AMD 880G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £93.99
OCZ Reaper Low-Latency 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 12800C6 (1600MHz) Dual-Channel (OCZ3RPR1600C6LV4GK) £82.99
CoolIT Eco A.L.C. CPU Watercooler (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366) £46.99
Patriot PS-100 32GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive £46.99

Total £528.39 minus whatever I can get for my current stuff

Opinions? :)
 
buy a £30 cooler and overclock that q6000 if you havent already.

buy a SSD.

P>S that motherboard doesn't support symmetrical crossfire, get a board with a 890GX/FX chipset
 
stulid said:
buy a £30 cooler and overclock that q6000 if you havent already.

buy a SSD.

P>S that motherboard doesn't support symmetrical crossfire, get a board with a 890GX/FX chipset
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Q6600's already clocked to within a nanometre of it's life :D
 
wait then.

buy a copy of win7 as i see you listed it, never saw it first read.

and just wait for the next lot of intel/amd tech.

oh yeah, buy a SSD
 
That AMD rig is more of a sidestep than a upgrade. Games won't make much use of the extra cores and Intel's new cpu's and socket are being launched later in the year. I would wait and see what they bring out. Your current rig is not likely to hold you back with anything for the time being.
 
That's gravy then, I'll stick an SSD and Windows 7 in it and try to clock it some more :D

Got a Thermalright Ultra 120 on there at the moment, worth upgrading or still good stuff?
 
Spot on.

You can see I have a Q6600 and managed a little more from mine, getting warm at the moment on the H50 but these are strong little chips.
 
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