£250 ish spec me.

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I'm 40 in 2 weeks :( on the plus side, I have £250 as a present! :)

I may throw some cash in, if its worth it, perhaps another £50 - £100.

Doubtful tbh, £50-£100 should soften the blow nicely of turning 40, down the pub! :D - (can you tell I'm looking forward to it? :o)

So whats my best option for around £250?

I Currently have (Running XP still :o) an e5300 @ 3.46Ghz, Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Mobo, 2GB DDR2 667 and an 896MB GTX 260. Coolermaster 550W PSU.

I play Battlefield 2 every saturday night on the thing, FSX & FS9 being my other two games I play, otherwise it sits all week being unused. Hardly much point in throwing a lot of cash at it imo.

So can I give it a boost for £250 ish? - I'm looking to improve what I have as opposed to a new build incidentally!

SSD drive perhaps? New Graphics card (although tbh my GTX 260 is fine with the rez I run at)? - some of the overclocked bundles look interesting too , I should certainly upgrade my OS I suppose! :o

I'd appreciate some advice. :)
 
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95thrifles said:
ditch your current RAM and get this
And yeah win7
Other than that its not a bad set up
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I was not expecting that for a reply, would the 4GB & Win 7 be that much of an improvement? with my existing hardware? I may well opt for that.

I suppose I'd want retail as opposed to OEM? - Eventually I would upgrade the rest of the rig...
 
With Retail this will allow you change without worrying and you could sell at a later date if you upgrade to a newer operating system.

I also like the idea of a SSD, I run the 60gb OCZ Vertex on my system and the 120gb in my laptop.
 
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4GB, Win 7 Retail (Yes I fancy the transferability of it over OEM) & an SSD is tempting me now, I'm thinking I'd see quite an improvement, and as I don't have many games installed, they could be on the SSD with the OS alone, giving me quite A kick in performance.... Am I barking up the right tree here?

On the other hand, £100ish on top of the £250 gives me this...

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Asus GeForce GTX 460 Direct CU TOP 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card Asus GeForce GTX 460 Direct CU TOP 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £119.99
(£102.12) £119.99
(£102.12)
AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 630 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 630 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £75.19
(£63.99) £75.19
(£63.99)
Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel (CMX6GX3M3A1600C9) Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel (CMX6GX3M3A1600C9) £58.74
(£49.99) £58.74
(£49.99)
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3 MA770 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3 MA770 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £57.99
(£49.35) £57.99
(£49.35)
Cooler Master GX 650W Power Supply Cooler Master GX 650W Power Supply £54.99
(£46.80) £54.99
(£46.80)
Sub Total : £312.25
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £56.39
Total : £378.64
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(I live local so won't be paying the shipping - shame about the VAT rise...)

I include the PSU as I'm not sure if my current 550W is enough for a GTX460? - if not, theres the OS paid for...


Choices choices! :D
 
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yeah, in your last spec you included triple channel RAM, the only systems which use triple channel are Intels 1366 socket, evrything else is dual, theres no need for more than 4 anyway
Its upto you whether you change your mobo and cpu, as you say its adding £100 to the cost so your call

Edit: oh BTW the 260s not a bad card still, 260 vs 460
 
95thrifles said:
yeah, in your last spec you included triple channel RAM, the only systems which use triple channel are Intels 1366 socket, evrything else is dual, theres no need for more than 4 anyway
Its upto you whether you change your mobo and cpu, as you say its adding £100 to the cost so your call

Edit: oh BTW the 260s not a bad card still, 260 vs 460
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Ahh! Bit of a whoops with the RAM :o - had missed that completely.

And nice one re the GFX cards, my two LCD's are both low ish (1680x1050) so the card would be a complete waste of money from what I see re the benchmark results that link... Nice heads up. :)

Right, so an SSD (I'm clueless re these) Win7, RAM, Mobo & a PSU then. :)
 
I'm tempted by this now (not quite sure why!) my thinking is get an SSD & new OS in a few weeks to complement it.....

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-016-OP&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1858

The main specifications of this bundle are: -
- Intel Core i5 760 Retail (Intel reference cooler supplied)
- 4GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600Mhz (2x2GB)
- Intel H55 & ICH7
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I burn lots of DVD's and have been told (rightly or wrongly) that an i5 would be a better bet than an Athlon II X4 Quad....
 
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