Is it worth it?

BloomerzUK

BloomerzUK

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At the moment I have:

Intel C2D E4300 @ Stock
Gigabyte DS3 P965 Motherboard
4GB of GeiL RAM - PC6400 (IIRC)
HD 4850 512MB
2x250GB WD's

Would this spec be a massive improvement?:

HIS ATI Radeon HD 6850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156)
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD6 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard
Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel
Intel X25-V Value 40GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive

Case and PSU are okay (Xigamatek Utgard and OCZ StealthXStream 500w Silent Power Supply)

Thinking about purchasing (if decided) - so if there is something better value let me know :).

Thanks,

Jake
 
It's a decent upgrade all round really, I don't like the Intel Value SSD's tho. The 3 channel kit is for the i7 9xx series, you want a 2*2 kit. (or 4*2). Depends what you are after, you can certainly eek out the life of that system with an overclock or quad core and better gfx card. An AMD setup is pretty competitive in that price range also.

Edit: A resonably fast large HD like the this week only Samsung F4 2TB would be mint.
 
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Could someone spec something for me?

My machine is really slow. I am thinking about getting a OCZ SSD with my current system, would I benefit from it?
 
BloomerzUK said:
What do you mean by that? Ha, sorry.. long day at work.
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When you go from a fast HDD to an SSD it just finishes the build off. It improves it in every way! I have went from a 300Gb Velociraptor to the 120Gb Corsair Reactor SSD. Once you realise that as soon as windows first opens everything is loaded, you really really appreciate the extra speed. No loading the final application 5-10 seconds later, its just . . . . there.
 
I think I know what my next purchase will be - any SSD in particular. I want it to hold atleast W7, PS CS5 and Steam with 3/4 games. Would 40GB be enough?
 
You would be better off getting one of the 60GB ones that are just under £100. Not much more then the intel, and they are faster and bigger.

My intel drive holds win7 64bit, all my apps (lots) and still has 13GB spare, but my games are on a seperate fast normal drive, as the steam/games folder is quite large.
 
40GB for what you're wanting to run doesn't sound enough to me but then again, it all depends what type of games you are planning to install. Me personally, i'd say 80GB SSD as that's what i have and can manage just fine.
 
I think I may get a 60GB SSD. I have lots of games on Steam, but I only use 3 or 4 of them on a regular basis, so it's okay.

Will no doubt post a thread on how to move my W7 installation across.

Also, I've seen people buying SATA Cards with there SSD's, would I need one? As my Mobo doesn't supper 6GB/s SATA.
 
BloomerzUK said:
What do you mean by that? Ha, sorry.. long day at work.
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I mean it's the thing that finishes a nice build off. If you have other problems with your comp, then the money spent on a SSD is not neccessarily a waste, but could be applied better.
 
Ahh right, thanks for the information.

Just got a tax rebate through also.. so I will definately get a SSD now, and maybe a Quad Core! :)
 
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