Best Upgrade?

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I have £150 spare to spend on upgrading my computer. I was thinking of either a new graphics card or an SSD? Which would you say would be the best? Any help would be appreciated.

My system as it stands:

Q6600 @ 3.2Ghz
Asrock P45 XE
Crucial Ballistix Tracer 4GB
Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7
Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB
Corsair HX 620
Zotac 8800GT Amp
2 Asus DVD Burners
Coolermaster Elite Case
Windows 7 Ultimate 64
 
I'd definitely go to GPU in your case!
Something like GTX470 is great choice and you'll see increase in performance!

On other hand : GTX280/GTX285/HD4890 can be purchased now for £70-£110, which is great bargain!
 
Your DVD burners. Just kidding. I agree with the above comments. Replace your graphics card with a 470. But if you don't care about games, as SSD is the best choice.
 
SpriteAlpha said:
Your DVD burners. Just kidding. I agree with the above comments. Replace your graphics card with a 470. But if you don't care about games, as SSD is the best choice.
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I was thinking of getting a 460 at first, but then i started reading people saying getting an SSD was the best upgrade they ever made. I play games occasionally so i'm not a hard core gamer. So maybe an SSD is best for me at the moment. Anyone point me to the best SSD for £150 or below?
 
As a ssd's performance will only show when booting or loading software, I would still recommend a decent GPU the 460 1gb or 470's recommended will blow you mind :)
 
Look if you can stretch the budget to £175 you could do both boosting your graphics and drive performance.

A 5770 would be a massive improvement over your 8800GT.
This much improvement - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/178?vs=172

So grab this at £99 -http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-122-HT&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1515

Now for just £75 you could grab a 40GB Corsair SSD
See -http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-017-CS&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910

So all in for £175 both done.

Or perhaps the Intel below instead of the Corsair, same price. Not quite as fast but some free games..........:D
See - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-006-IN&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910
 
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Look if you can stretch the budget to £175 you could do both.

A 5770 would be a massive improvement over your 8800GT.
This much improvement - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/178?vs=172

So grab this at £99 -http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-122-HT&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1515

Now for just £75 you could grab a 40GB Corsair SSD
See -http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-017-CS&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910

So all in for £175 both done.
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This seems the best option and i will probably go with it. Thanks for your replies guys, much appreciated :)
 
+1 for GPU. That seems to be a big hole in your system.

Of course, if you don't do any gaming or graphic-intensive stuff, then maybe an SSD.
 
id go with the GPU i bought a SSD and found the only difference to be startup/shutdown times, in my opinion not worth £120 but hey each to there own..
 
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