Built myself a PC back in 2008 using the following :
Asus P5Q
C2D E5200
WD Velociraptor 74GB
Nvidia 8800GTS 512
2GB RAM
Win XP SP3
The CPU is clocked at 3GHz and everything is super stable but feel I could do with it a little quicker around Windows sometimes, any easy upgrades I can do 2 years on without a motherboard change/big upheaval etc to achieve a moderate gain in performance? Quite fancy an SSD HDD but think it's an uphill struggle with XP. Play the odd game Bioshock, GTA4 etc so maybe a GPU upgrade wouldn't hurt too.
Cheers
Asus P5Q
C2D E5200
WD Velociraptor 74GB
Nvidia 8800GTS 512
2GB RAM
Win XP SP3
The CPU is clocked at 3GHz and everything is super stable but feel I could do with it a little quicker around Windows sometimes, any easy upgrades I can do 2 years on without a motherboard change/big upheaval etc to achieve a moderate gain in performance? Quite fancy an SSD HDD but think it's an uphill struggle with XP. Play the odd game Bioshock, GTA4 etc so maybe a GPU upgrade wouldn't hurt too.
Cheers