£200 upgrade

powelly

powelly

powelly

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hi i got £200 for xmas and i was wondering what i should upgrade

current spec

amd phenom ii x4 b45 @ 3.0ghz
asus m4a785td-v evo xfire mobo
4gb g skill ripjaw @ 1600mhz 8-8-8-8-24
500gb wd drive
sata dvdr super multi drive thing
ez cool 700 watt psu
xfx 5830
avenge power hummer atx case

things i have thought about are

buying another 5830 for xfire plus small ssd
also selling current 5830 is not an option as i have just got it

opinions would be nice as i am not to sure what to so and the money is burning a whole in my pocket ;)
 
Whats the main uses?

If your PC isn't struggling atm then save the money.

If you're big into gaming, you can get a HD6870 for less than £200. Personally wouldn't bother with Crossfire 5830's - not the best scaling cards.
 
Cookeh said:
Whats the main uses?

If your PC isn't struggling atm then save the money.

If you're big into gaming, you can get a HD6870 for less than £200. Personally wouldn't bother with Crossfire 5830's - not the best scaling cards.
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you see it kind of is because im doing eyefinity i have to turn shadows down in most games and everything else on max settings in games to see a decent fps.

i like to game a lot and like i said selling 5830 and going for another card isn't an option. and from the review i have seen 5830 has good scaling?


also about the 27" i am doing eyefinity atm but i like the sound of this, were would i get a 27 inch sub £200:confused:
 
Two choices.

1) An SSD. Go for a small one as a Windows/boot drive. Add another 4GB of memory.
2) 25 x KB-046-LG and 6 x CC-001-AK for the ULTIMATE in control.

I'm only being serious about 1)
 
The Halk said:
Two choices.

1) An SSD. Go for a small one as a Windows/boot drive. Add another 4GB of memory.
2) 25 x KB-046-LG and 6 x CC-001-AK for the ULTIMATE in control.

I'm only being serious about 1)
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im stuck for choices but atm i like the sound of ssd's and more memory and the 27" screen
 
If you like the sound of SSD then you could opt to drop the whole 200 on an SSD.

I do not recommend running RAID on SSDs, so it's not ideal to buy one and then buy another later for more capacity. However you can't really buy enough SSD to reasonably hold all the games you'd want. If I grabbed everything I have on Steam plus my other games I'd need way more than the 200GB of SSD I have... So you need to have a think about capacity and what goes where. 50GB is plenty for Windows, but all games would need to go onto the 500GB drive. 100GB would get you a very few games... and 200GB would get you most games as long as you were prepared to uninstall/archive some games. At 50/60GB the best chocie is OCZ Vertex. If you go above that then the Crucial C300 is widely perceived to be the best around (their 64GB is a bit of a dog).
 
The Halk said:
If you like the sound of SSD then you could opt to drop the whole 200 on an SSD.

I do not recommend running RAID on SSDs, so it's not ideal to buy one and then buy another later for more capacity. However you can't really buy enough SSD to reasonably hold all the games you'd want. If I grabbed everything I have on Steam plus my other games I'd need way more than the 200GB of SSD I have... So you need to have a think about capacity and what goes where. 50GB is plenty for Windows, but all games would need to go onto the 500GB drive. 100GB would get you a very few games... and 200GB would get you most games as long as you were prepared to uninstall/archive some games. At 50/60GB the best chocie is OCZ Vertex. If you go above that then the Crucial C300 is widely perceived to be the best around (their 64GB is a bit of a dog).
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put it this way i have 80gb free on my 500gb drive and all that is is games and software so i would only be using and ssd for windows/boot and my main applications, and im not realy prepared to drop the whole lot on a ssd;)
 
anyone else got any ideas? like would it be worth upgrading my cpu to a 6 core as my current one is like the lowest phenom ii possible and was unlocked from a x2 to a x4 so not much performance compared to other x4's
 
I've an idea.

A new case - that thing of yours is fugly and pretty crap. . . !

I'd also stay away from X6's unless you're going to use all 6 cores, in most over applications (liek gaming) you'll get worse performance.
 
Nobody seems to have bothered finding out what my option 2 was :p

I don't see the £92 vertex 2? The only one I see is £90 which is the over provisioned 50GB one.
 
I'm not sure you are reading it correctly. I think he has the 500GB drive as the boot drive. He isn't willing to spend the money on a drive large enough to hold all his games (£1K+).
 
Cookeh said:
But if I'm reading this correctly he already has one for a boot drive, and isn't willing to spend the money on one for his games.

Surely he'd benefit much more from a graphics upgrade?

If you sold the HD5830, you could get two HD5850's and Crossfire them - that would be a lot more potent than Crossfire HD5830's :p
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his specs say 500gb western digital

no mention of an ssd....
 
Cookeh said:
But if I'm reading this correctly he already has one for a boot drive, and isn't willing to spend the money on one for his games.

Surely he'd benefit much more from a graphics upgrade?

If you sold the HD5830, you could get two HD5850's and Crossfire them - that would be a lot more potent than Crossfire HD5830's :p
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no i don't have an ssd at the moment,if i did get one it would be a boot drive though and as i have said selling the 5830 is not an option as i have just got it and tbh imo it is a lot better card than everyone is saying it is runs most games at 4000x1000 maxed out no prob at 60+fps it's just a few that i have to turn settings down, this is with an overclock ofc tho
 
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