Within a month or so, I will have a decent amount of money to spend, probably £200 at most. I have several options, and at the moment I'm not sure what to go for.
My initial thoughts went to a new CPU, see my thread here; http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18227916
I could drop in a quad or hexcore and see a noticeable performance increase. The thing is, performance is fine for the games I play at the moment tbh.
The next is an SSD. I was thinking that a 120Gb Crucial or OCZ would be a worthy upgrade with enough space for the OS, WoW and a few other games. However, I'm not exactly unhappy with the performance I get at the moment, and setting up the drives seems a lot of trouble; there are many conflicting suggestions regarding installation and setup.
Another thing that I've always been wanting to try is watercooling. My PC can be quite loud at the moment, and I would see a great improvement as I'm on stock cooler. AFAIK, I can get a decent CPU only loop for less than £200. Once again though, is that upgrade worth it, when I will only gain a few hundred MHz on the CPU? It would be upgradeable though, so I could tale it through to future builds.
Finally, I could get a decent air cooler, a few fans and a smaller SSD for a similar price? Would this be a better compromise?
So, final question, what would you do?
Opinions and advice greatly appreciated!
My initial thoughts went to a new CPU, see my thread here; http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18227916
I could drop in a quad or hexcore and see a noticeable performance increase. The thing is, performance is fine for the games I play at the moment tbh.
The next is an SSD. I was thinking that a 120Gb Crucial or OCZ would be a worthy upgrade with enough space for the OS, WoW and a few other games. However, I'm not exactly unhappy with the performance I get at the moment, and setting up the drives seems a lot of trouble; there are many conflicting suggestions regarding installation and setup.
Another thing that I've always been wanting to try is watercooling. My PC can be quite loud at the moment, and I would see a great improvement as I'm on stock cooler. AFAIK, I can get a decent CPU only loop for less than £200. Once again though, is that upgrade worth it, when I will only gain a few hundred MHz on the CPU? It would be upgradeable though, so I could tale it through to future builds.
Finally, I could get a decent air cooler, a few fans and a smaller SSD for a similar price? Would this be a better compromise?
So, final question, what would you do?
Opinions and advice greatly appreciated!