My riggs weak spot.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 24 Sep 2007 at 15:29

I have a bit of spare money this month (350/400) so I thought I might see if there are anyways of improving my system in turns of performance for gaming.
Specs as below.
Couple of options passing through my mind are perhaps a Q6600 or a MB upgrade so I can run faster ram and perhaps SLI @ 2X16 PCI-E.
Or am I wasting my money and any upgrade wouldnt be that binifical over what I already have?
Cheers me dears!

Raikiri · 24 Sep 2007 at 15:31

Other than your case I wouldn't bother making any changes personally, it's a very fast system.

Garyj881 · 24 Sep 2007 at 15:36

Case, monitor or hard drive.

Dingleberry88 · 24 Sep 2007 at 15:37

Looks fine as it is to me.

What about RAID0 500GB HDDs?

PhillyDee · 24 Sep 2007 at 15:39

Tbh, i wouldn't change anything. Maybe new keyboard/mouse/monitor. The base unit is spot on.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 24 Sep 2007 at 15:52

Thanks guys, did the monitor last month, upgraded from a HannsG 19" to a Samsung 20", not massive screen difference course I sit close and wanted extra res without going to a 24". Hard-drive is perhaps a good point, I have a SataII 250GB 16MB Cache atm its either a Seagate or Maxtor cant remember, but would this improve performance much?

Whats wrong with the case?

It's good for cooling and doesnt take off honest!

Cupra · 24 Sep 2007 at 15:53

you could go quad with a p35 board, sli really isnt worth it and netither are ultras, the acer 24" moniter is a good buy tho imo

steve258 · 24 Sep 2007 at 15:54

XCLIO A380 Twin Engine - Is this your case, will probably get a new case if it was me.

Or just save up

Cupra · 24 Sep 2007 at 15:55

cases are personal preferance imo, a lot of people love lian li but i think there very poor due to sharp edges ect

semi-pro waster · 24 Sep 2007 at 15:59

Tell me I wasn't the only person to think of Lethal Weapon at the title of this thread?

If you really want to spend some money then I'd probably go with a P35 based motherboard and a Q6600 but there is no obvious need to change.

Teaf · 24 Sep 2007 at 16:05

semi-pro waster said:
Tell me I wasn't the only person to think of Lethal Weapon at the title of this thread?

Heh yeah, was on TV last night too (LW4), was great

OP: Q6600 if you wanted too, and also a motherboard but you may wish to hang fire for the X38 boards which are due in ~2 weeks.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 24 Sep 2007 at 16:09

flibby said:
Heh yeah, was on TV last night too (LW4), was great

OP: Q6600 if you wanted too, and also a motherboard but you may wish to hang fire for the X38 boards which are due in ~2 weeks.

ooooo X38 boards whats the story with them then, what do they do that the P35 boards wont?

Bengaboy · 24 Sep 2007 at 16:09

I think that your system would do anything you really need it to no problemo. At the moment, seeing as you have an e6600 a Q6600 would be overkill and you should consider saving your dosh and waiting for the next load of cpus to come out.

Thats what id do anyways

ByteJuggler · 24 Sep 2007 at 16:14

Yep my £0.02 worth: Save up and upgrade when something really interesting comes along in the next couple of months.

Teaf · 24 Sep 2007 at 16:15

Loowi_ashley said:
ooooo X38 boards whats the story with them then, what do they do that the P35 boards wont?

Dual / Tripple 16x PCI-E lanes
Much better integration with DDR3
PCI-E 2.0 specification
Rumoured to work better than P35's with Penryn chips (can't confirm that)
1600 FSB CPU support (apparantly native)
Rumoured to be able to do SLI (definetly Xfire though)

Raikiri · 24 Sep 2007 at 16:45

Cupra said:
cases are personal preferance imo, a lot of people love lian li but i think there very poor due to sharp edges ect

Never cut myself on a Lian Li... you must have skin like tissue paper

*Chris · 24 Sep 2007 at 17:23

The twin engine case is nice, ive got it now so ignore everyone else

You could get yourself a watercooling setup, otherwise just wait and upgrade when the new bits and bobs are out.