Criticise my upgrade spec!!

Ben Cole · 17 Nov 2006 at 01:14

Thinking about upgrading to cope with my increased video/photo editing and handling needs as my system is a bit slow. (Having only 512Mb)

So thanks to some other threads I came up with this spec.

Would you guys change any item for something else around the same price? Or even spend more or less for greater "bang per buck"

Do you think the PSU is necessary as I already have a ATX2 PSU but it's only 350W (Antec phantom 350W bought for my media PC)?

Thanks.

SiriusB · 17 Nov 2006 at 01:17

Looks pretty good to me. Sure you don't want a better graphics card? No idea what the one you have chosen is like but I am just wondering if it would struggle with your photo/video editing. I suspect you wont be gaming anyway!

Don't need the Arctic Silver. The Freezer 7 comes with MX-1 pre-applied and it is just as good as AS. Save yersel a fiver

SiriusB

number41 · 17 Nov 2006 at 02:01

Graphics card. Get the X1900XT 256MB and you wont regret it

Darg · 17 Nov 2006 at 02:19

Yea the only thing wrong is the card. It won't handle any kind of modern games really.

If you don't want to spend more then £100 on it then get a 7600GT PCI-E. That will do for most games and is pretty damn good for the price.

Ben Cole · 18 Nov 2006 at 02:48

Thanks guys, would you agree I definitely need a new PSU?

Big.Wayne · 18 Nov 2006 at 11:01

Ben Cole said:
Thanks guys, would you agree I definitely need a new PSU?

I think it would be a good idea to get the Enermax that you listed. PSU's are quite prone to *wearing* down after a good year or two's use!

touch · 18 Nov 2006 at 11:04

are you going to be using your old case or have you missed it out?

Tetras · 18 Nov 2006 at 11:09

For the same money I'd get:
OcUK GeForce 7300 GT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
£59.64 (inc VAT)

Ben Cole · 18 Nov 2006 at 17:04

Cheers tetras.

Might just use my old case. It's aluminium and I quite like it...but who knows when you're doing a whole new build it's nice to start fresh eh?

Problem is that I started looking to buy some new RAM in order to get quicker handling of big digital pictures , now I'm looking at spending 700 quid!!!!!!

You all know that feeling I'll bet!!!!

BigRon · 18 Nov 2006 at 17:36

could you not just upgrade memory on existing setup, may be a new drive to

Ben Cole · 18 Nov 2006 at 20:00

BigRon said:
could you not just upgrade memory on existing setup, may be a new drive to

This is probably the sensible thing to do...but you know how it goes when you get an itch to build something new!!!!