Little advice please

bulb66

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Hi all,

OK so this is my current spec;

Gigabyte H55N-USB3
Intel i3 530
4GB Corsair RAM
Nvidia Geforce GT 630
500GB HD
Windows 7 64bit

OK i would like to speed things up a bit but only have limited £'s at the moment. And I believe my MB can only support 8GB RAM

What would be the best way of doing this? SSD and RAM was what i was thinking. I have say £150 to spend and i would also like to change my case which is currently a Lian Li PC-Q07B for something bigger to allow my external HD's to be added.

Or would i be better saving and building a new system? I mainly browse the net, minecraft and edit a few photo's in Photoshop.

Thanks,

James
 
Without a doubt an SSD will make the biggest difference. I would have a good think about how much space you might need on it as well. I personally would run out of room with a 120GB SSD but obviously a 240GB is going to wipe out most of your budget.

My personal choice of SSD would be one of the Samsung EVO drives if I was buying at the moment :)
 
Does having a SSD and HDD decrease the performance gained?

I mean having OS on SSD and files, programs etc on HDD

J
 
bulb66 said:
Does having a SSD and HDD decrease the performance gained?

I mean having OS on SSD and files, programs etc on HDD

J
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Need to put the regularly used programs on the ssd too, the hdd should be used as storage really.
 
Sry i meant i3, 2.9GHz stock i believe, might be able to get it up to 3.1-3.3 without a voltage increase, would have to search for some guides tho as i have never had one of thoes.
 
Just had a go at overclocking and by increaseing the bus to 166 i've got 3.6Ghz, i had to decrease the memory multiplier to 8 to keep that at 1333Mhz. Will run it for a bit see if it stays stable.

So what about RAM if i can increase my budget?

Thanks
 
What about this?
Your basket

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Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
(£54.99) £65.99
(£54.99)
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BitFenix Prodigy M MATX Cube Case - Midnight Black £65.52
(£54.60) £65.52
(£54.60)
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Avexir Core Red Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIR) £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)

Total : £191.50
 
Personally I don't think you will see a noticeable improvement with more RAM with what you're doing. You'd be better off saving a bit longer and getting a new CPU and mobo imo
 
bulb66 said:
Just had a go at overclocking and by increaseing the bus to 166 i've got 3.6Ghz, i had to decrease the memory multiplier to 8 to keep that at 1333Mhz. Will run it for a bit see if it stays stable.

So what about RAM if i can increase my budget?

Thanks
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Keep an eye on temps then, if voltage is on auto then it will probably have increased, use realtemp or coretemp to monitor it at idle and load, as for ram as mentioned you probably will see a minimal performance increase adding another 4Gb.
 
OK so get the SSD and case now and then save for better CPU and mobo for which i can use the case and SSD with later.

Thanks for the help guys.
 
Ordered :-)

So now what do i have to do to get ready for the SSD? I've read i need to change some thing in the bios? and what about windows fresh install or clone?

Thanks
 
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