Man of Honour
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At the time of upgrade, then I have 2:
Nvidia 6800GT - Just ripped through all my games like chain saw.
Sand-force SSD - Although i have an older gen, the impact was immediate. Boot times, games and generally performance where significantly and notably quicker.
As I said before, it's not that often that an upgrade come along that's visible and instantly makes a difference without having to run media benchmarks. These were certainly two.
In terms of wow factor longer term.. Both the Q6600 and the 8800GTx where amazing pieces of hardware. Although this is more likely to do with the slower production of cutting edge software, my 5 year old CPU is still going strong.. Certainly the best value for money ever.
Nvidia 6800GT - Just ripped through all my games like chain saw.
Sand-force SSD - Although i have an older gen, the impact was immediate. Boot times, games and generally performance where significantly and notably quicker.
As I said before, it's not that often that an upgrade come along that's visible and instantly makes a difference without having to run media benchmarks. These were certainly two.
In terms of wow factor longer term.. Both the Q6600 and the 8800GTx where amazing pieces of hardware. Although this is more likely to do with the slower production of cutting edge software, my 5 year old CPU is still going strong.. Certainly the best value for money ever.