Decisions on what to upgrade.

[JonJ678]

So, its the amazing time of year where student loans turn up. I probably have at most £200 to throw at my computer, and am unsure what to go for. Hopefully this thread will help me decide.

Current specification
i7 920 / gigabyte UD5 / akasa omega / water (two 240 radiators) /860W psu
3x2gb of corsair 1600mhz dominator, ver 3.2
30gb vertex (which might be moving into a laptop)
8800gt 512mb

Ideas in no particular order

1/I'm hitting stability issues over 4ghz which are related to either ram or motherboard overheating. So for about £80 I can put blocks on the board and clock it higher. For an extra 50 I can watercool the ram.

2/ Another set of ram. This is not going to help overclocking efforts, but the software I use will appreciate it and I like doing things with ramdisks.

3/ New graphics card for about £180. I don't play games much, but would like to. I think a 200 quid card would do well on a 20" screen.

4/60gb ssd, for about £150.

Happy to buy second hand if I can find any. Corsair dominator and motherboard blocks are unlikely, but graphics card and ssd would certainly be second hand.

What would you do?

edit: it's possible longer graphics cards wont fit, need to find a tape

 

[PermaBanned]

I'd just get a 5850 and call it a day, seems pretty solid already.