Ageing System - upgrade £800/£900

Battery364

Battery364

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Hi, my ageing system (6 years old) is starting to show signs that an upgrade could be on the cards. My current system is made up of...

CPU: Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366)
Mobo: Asus P6T Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3
GPU: Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6950 "Dual Fan Edition" 2048MB GDDR5
RAM: OCZ Reaper 6GB (3 X 2GB) DDR3 PC3-14400 (1800MHz) Tri-Channel
PSU: Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant Power Supply
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache
Case: Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case

I'm looking to spend around the £800/£900 mark is there anything worth keeping from my above system ? If anyone could kindly recommend some new components as I'm somewhat out of the loop with current tech.

I wouldn't need the O/S, monitors etc (current res is 1920x1200). Is it worth keeping the case, or ditching it for a newer one ? The upgrade would mainly be used for gaming.

Might be worth mentioning that I would prefer to go the SSD route as well.
 
Go buy an SSD before you consider changing anything else. A clean install on an SSD might well convince you that no further upgrades are necessary at the moment.

Did with me anyways.

After that maybe look at the GPU. And needless to say, clock that 920 if it isn't already.
 
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Tom B said:
You might want to consider an X58 Hex-Core Xeon as a cheap (£50-£100) upgrade and use the money you saved on a better GPU/SSD. See: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18618052
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This, why spend a fortune when you can have a great upgrade for next to nothing. Then add an SSD and GFX and see how it goes, I'm betting you'd be fine and that's where I'd put my money. I've noticed that 1366 boards seems to be holding their value at the moment because this option is available.

Then if you're not happy sell the CPU and upgrade the rest, you loose nothing.
 
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