I want my PC to give me a buzz again!

AlexTrickle

AlexTrickle

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Do you remember how you felt the first time you built a PC? I remember the buzz I got the first time I built my own PC. I chose bad components, wasted money on silly things but it was all irrelevant because when it booted for the first time there was nothing stopping that Cheshire cat grin on my face!!

Since then I've been through various systems and each time I've tried to progress my own building ability a bit further. However none of them (no matter how fast or cool looking) have ever given me that warm fuzzy feeling that my first system did.

I want that feeling again!!! I have about £250 to spend on the following system:

i3 530 w/Corsair H50
Gigabyte H55M-UD2
4GB Corsair Dominator PC12800 DDR3
Asus HD5770 1GB
OCZ ModXStream 500W
Xigmatek Utgard Case (probably my star random purchase of 2010!!)
Samsung 1TB HDD
WD Velociraptor 74GB HDD


I know where I stand with CPU/gfx upgrades - there are options for both that I can afford and will give substantial boosts but I'm looking for suggestions of things that aren't that obvious and you may have found make you feel proud of your system? Custom watercooling/Modding etc?
 
Awesome gaming upgrade would be an i5 760 and a 5850, obviously. If you want to feel good about your system, play Crysis on it with that, and laugh at your friends' inability to turn the settings up as far as you can.

Of course, for other options, the SSD is a star buy, as others have said. Your system will be faster and more responsive, it'll boot faster, and it's a big e-penis thing. For full watercooling kits and case mods, there are respective forums for that, but you'll kick yourself later for spending all that money and not improving your system's performance one bit.
 
An i5-760 and a second HD5770, although you may struggle on that PSU.

If you really don't want that, then get an SSD, and you could spend some money on theming your case to your liking. For example, buying some quality fans, braiding your cables and adding some LEDs or CCFLs.
 
I've not been able to afford an SSD since they've come out but now they're definitely on my wish list!


LiamJ said:
An i5-760 and a second HD5770, although you may struggle on that PSU.

If you really don't want that, then get an SSD, and you could spend some money on theming your case to your liking. For example, buying some quality fans, braiding your cables and adding some LEDs or CCFLs.
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Braiding cables is something I thought I'd quite like to do.
Are there any good tutorials on it? Also what tools would I need?


Also I didn't think my motherboard supported CrossFire (or am I mistaken)?
 
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