Challenge - enhance my system for £225!

mcgriffo · 26 Mar 2008 at 13:23

Hi All

I have £225 to LAVISH on my current system (been running fine for about a year) - at first I was just going to upgrade bits of my w/c, but maybe I could put my money elsewhere?

What would YOU do, with £225 to blow, on this current set up?

Lian-Li PC V2000B PLUS Black Aluminium Full-Tower
Corsair HX 620W PSU
Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi 965 Socket 775 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 640MB GDDR3
Creative Soundblaster X-fi Xtreme Gamer Soundcard
OCZ 2GB PC2-6400 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2
Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II
Samsung SH-W183 18x18 DVD±RW
Swiftech H20-220 Apex Ultra+ Watercooling Kit
Viewsonic TFT 20" VX2025wm
Windows XP Pro

mcgriffo · 26 Mar 2008 at 13:55

I knew I'd forget to mention part of the current spec - just edited to include Creative Soundblaster X-fi Xtreme Gamer Soundcard

Good ideas so far though..... particularly interested in going down the Vista road, maybe...

mcgriffo · 26 Mar 2008 at 15:33

Tempting suggestions all round....

..how much is vista 64 bit home premium RETAIL going for now? Roughly?

mcgriffo · 27 Mar 2008 at 09:10

Are you limited to "one PC" etc with the EDU version?

There is a possibility I may want to change my motherboard in the future....

mcgriffo · 27 Mar 2008 at 13:14

more RAM would be pointless with the OS change, wouldn't it?

mcgriffo · 27 Mar 2008 at 13:49

Thanks GT - I (mistakenly) thought that XP would never use more than 2gb of RAM.

As for the overall upgrade, I don't know if my funds could stretch to screen, GPU and RAM. I know I could sell current stuff, but wouldn't that mean i'd still be scraping around for "budget" gear to replace it? I'm thinking of the screen, here, especially....