£200 upgrade

powelly2010 said:
back on topic preferably a small ssd like 32gb so i can spend more on case, mem ect .

any other suggestions welcome :)
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sorry for having a laugh mate...i thought it was you who asked for my advice?

buy something with a sandforce controller in it otherwise your wasting your

money.... as far as i know theres nothing at 32gb with a sandforce :(
 
cammy5477 said:
sorry for having a laugh mate...i thought it was you who asked for my advice?

buy something with a sandforce controller in it otherwise your wasting your

money.... as far as i know theres nothing at 32gb with a sandforce :(
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kk lol :P sorry for being a party pooper :( so 32gb is no go?
 
32GB is honestly too small. You could go for an Indilinx drive at that capacity, performance isn't greatly lower than Sandforce, but I think you'd regret it later for being too small.
 
im not very up to date with this sandforce/indilinx thing anyone care to explain?

and i am willing to spen £100 maybe a little over on a ssd but what can i get with the other £100? that will benifit be in gaming, things like photoshop and in design
 
sandforce is a newer controller that offers greater speeds...especially on the write speeds it seems...vertex 2 is the way to go

if your desperate to spend it which seems you are then id go 2nd 5830....but your cpu my bottleneck you on most games
 
I'm still saying the other 100 would be best spent on memory, assuming you have a use for it - photoshop for example - and that you're running 64 bit OS.

Indilinx was the first non-intel SSD controller in what's seen as the second generation. It was the first with TRIM support (although it arrived across the board pretty much at the same time). It was a great step forward from the previous generation of SSDs which had almost no processing power. Sandforce is a rival that came to market much later than Inixlinx and is a great improvement on it, though nothing like the difference between JMicron and Indilinx. If you have the choice between Sandforce and Indilinx then go Indilinx every time. Sandforce is still fine though, and if you wanted to go for something as small as 32GB then that'd be where to go - I don't think it's a good option to go that low capacity though.

I've been looking into cases recently - I'm just about to replace mine - and the Fractal R3 seems to be the best around (I have a thread in the Cases forum where I explain why it suits me), so that's what I'd go for there.

If you wanted to add another 4GB of memory you should go for the same as what you have already.

That comes out above £200 - I think around £250.

Other than buying little things to improve the cabling inside your case, or replacing fans, adding lighting etc I can't think of anything else.
 
The Halk said:
I'm still saying the other 100 would be best spent on memory, assuming you have a use for it - photoshop for example - and that you're running 64 bit OS.

Indilinx was the first non-intel SSD controller in what's seen as the second generation. It was the first with TRIM support (although it arrived across the board pretty much at the same time). It was a great step forward from the previous generation of SSDs which had almost no processing power. Sandforce is a rival that came to market much later than Inixlinx and is a great improvement on it, though nothing like the difference between JMicron and Indilinx. If you have the choice between Sandforce and Indilinx then go Indilinx every time. Sandforce is still fine though, and if you wanted to go for something as small as 32GB then that'd be where to go - I don't think it's a good option to go that low capacity though.

I've been looking into cases recently - I'm just about to replace mine - and the Fractal R3 seems to be the best around (I have a thread in the Cases forum where I explain why it suits me), so that's what I'd go for there.

If you wanted to add another 4GB of memory you should go for the same as what you have already.

That comes out above £200 - I think around £250.

Other than buying little things to improve the cabling inside your case, or replacing fans, adding lighting etc I can't think of anything else.
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would i be able to mix memory? as i cannot find my current memory anywhere except ebay which i don't realy want to use
 
powelly2010 said:
would i be able to mix memory? as i cannot find my current memory anywhere except ebay which i don't realy want to use
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Yeah, you can mix mmeory, sometimes you end up having to relax the timings more than what you would normally. Rarely it may not post or be unstable.

OcUK do seem to sell 2x2GB kits of Ripjaw, I had a quick look and assumed one of those would be what you had already.
 
The Halk said:
Yeah, you can mix mmeory, sometimes you end up having to relax the timings more than what you would normally. Rarely it may not post or be unstable.

OcUK do seem to sell 2x2GB kits of Ripjaw, I had a quick look and assumed one of those would be what you had already.
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no my ripjaws have different timings, i was thinking of something with same timing as my current set which is 8-8-8-8-24 i think to avoid issues and dosn't matter which 1600mhz or 1333mhz wouldn't be an issuse for me as i dont mind going down from 1600 to 1333 on my current set, if that made any sense

EDIT: oh and would it matter with the voltage? my current voltage is 1.5v i think on the ram
 
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