Advice on what to upgrade

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Hi Guys,

I'm in the mood to upgrade some parts in my PC which I bought from OCUK back in August as I feel I need some more juice out of it!

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-168-OE (Specs have changed now)

Ideally I want to have atleast 8GB RAM and anything else that will help. I upgraded my PSU last month to a OCZ 550W ZT Series

I have a budget of 300 quid (I know, not a lot) but will keep upgrading as I go on.

(I mainly use it to play WoW,BF3 and other games)

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You also may want to consider a HD 7870 2GB, which should be available to buy next week.

Also, an SSD is a good option - even if it's just a 60-64GB one to put the OS, the key apps and a couple of games on- as it will give a nice performance boost in terms of loading times and a generally feeling of "quickness". This one is a good SSD. If you want to try 128GB then this is a very nice price for an excellent drive.

As for more RAM, a 8GB 1600MHz kit can be had for £38 these days - so it may be worth upgrading.
 
You also may want to consider a HD 7870 2GB, which should be available to buy next week.

Also, an SSD is a good option - even if it's just a 60-64GB one to put the OS, the key apps and a couple of games on- as it will give a nice performance boost in terms of loading times and a generally feeling of "quickness". This one is a good SSD. If you want to try 128GB then this is a very nice price for an excellent drive.

As for more RAM, a 8GB 1600MHz kit can be had for £38 these days - so it may be worth upgrading.

Yep, have been looking at SSD's too. Looks good.

If I get 2x Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB (2x2GB) = 16GB, will that be too much?

Looks like SSD, GPU and RAM are the main things I need It looks like.
 
If I get 2x Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB (2x2GB) = 16GB, will that be too much?

It really depends what you use your PC for.

If it is mainly memory intensive stuff like photo editing or VMs, then absolutely.

However, if you are mainly gaming then you really won't see any performance benefit over 8GB - since hardly any games can make use of more than 4GB of system RAM (in fact not all can do that).
 
IIRC WoW is a very CPU intensive game. You may see an improvement by going to a quad core cpu, perhaps look at getting a second hand i5 750/760 and overclocking it. And as above, RAM is so cheap you may as well upgrade to 8GB. The rest should be spent on a gpu upgrade for around £200.
 
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