Help Needed with New Addition to My Build

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So at the end of last year I decided to build my first PC and had lots of help from forum members - you can search my epic first build post. I learnt loads from that and have changed the original psu and added a graphics card. With my hard drive dying on me recently, I started considering an SSD, and from my other post on here I'm also considering the Corsair H50 as I imagine my new graphics card will generate more heat.

I use my pc for surfing the web, office appliactions using voice recognition which still has some lag on it, and have recenlty got into gaming - hence the 5850. Its great having a fast pc but wondered what I should do next. I'm starting to realise my motherboard may be a limiting factor, as when I fitted the graphics card there was very liitle room and I certainly wouldnt be able to fit another. So where would I notice most difference - extra RAM, a new SSD (which I think would help with the lag on voice recognition), HDs in RAID, or just leave everything alone for a while??

I don't have loads of money to throw around but wondered what people thought?? My build is:
Phenom II X4 955
Gigabyte UD3H
4GB Patriot Sector 5 PC3-12800
Sapphire HD 5850
Asus Xonar DX
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB
Corsair 650W ATX

Cheers
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I assume this is your motherboard:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-210-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

It can only do asymmetrical Crossfire at 16X/4X so there is no point adding another HD5850 as this would affect scaling:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=3154

Apart from that the build looks perfectly fine and perhaps an SSD would be nice to add although they are very expensive and you would need to do some research on which models are the best to go for!
 
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