rebuilding my system

cellpack · 16 Sep 2012 at 16:18

Hi Everyone,

I am looking at possibly upgrading my system which I use for web/graphic design and gaming

I currently have

*OVERCLOCKED* Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz @ 4.00GHz Max / Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58 Motherboard / Corsair XMS3 6GB PC3-12800C9 DDR3 / Corsair H50 Bundle

XFX ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Dell UltraSharp 2209WA 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor

Intel X25-M Mainstream 80GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (SSDSA2MH080G2C1)

Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXUK)

Coolermaster CM-690 Pure Black Dominator Case - Black (No PSU)

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ)

Samsung SH-S223B/RSMN 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter

what could I change to make it better? I am running out of hd space so was thinking about purchasing a new samsung 256 ssd drive?

Thanks very much

Stinger53 · 16 Sep 2012 at 16:24

Get a SSD the samsung ones are good

Mei · 16 Sep 2012 at 16:30

OCZ Vertex 4 512GB has come down quite a lot

cellpack · 16 Sep 2012 at 16:37

I dont have any sata ports free could i get a sata 3 pci-e adaptor and run it okay?

Mei · 16 Sep 2012 at 16:42

for the good ones prolly not worth the cost
not an expert on that but the good ones look expensive, more expensive than a mobo anyway

sata3 is a little overrated anyway bcos ssds real speed is when handling tiny little files, and lots them at the same time, when doing that it doesnt hit the 300mb limit often i should think

cellpack · 16 Sep 2012 at 17:41

thanks, very much does everything else look okay

Ive had to remove the overclock as it suddenly became unstable for some reason with no changes to the hardware

cellpack · 17 Sep 2012 at 18:23

do you think this will last for a while before needing to upgrade, want to try and upgrade parts at a time instead of all together :-)

Stinger53 · 17 Sep 2012 at 20:29

yeh it will.. the cpu is still a good one