Slight PC upgrade

Cooners · 23 Jul 2010 at 19:52

Hi

I've decided I'd like to upgrade my PC a bit, I got £200ish to spend, this is my spec:
Asus Maximus Formula
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHZ
Corsair Dominator 2GB DDR2
ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
2x 750GB HD in RAID 0
1TB HD

I was thinking of going for a second hand 4870 and another 4GB Corsair Dominator memory.
Does that sound like a decent upgrade or is that something better I could do.

Many Thanks

gamesaregood · 23 Jul 2010 at 19:56

Whats the PC mainly used for? Which version of Windows are you using?

stulid · 23 Jul 2010 at 20:06

extra 2gb or ram, to make 4gb in total.

and an SSD.

Cooners · 23 Jul 2010 at 20:17

It is mainly used for gaming and I'm running Windows 7 64

stulid · 23 Jul 2010 at 20:21

Cooners said:
It is mainly used for gaming and I'm running Windows 7 64

overclock that cpu, if your still using the stock intel heatsink? buy a performance cooler.

get an additional amount of ram, for 4gb

Cooners · 23 Jul 2010 at 20:44

I have a Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler kicking around here somewhere, it was installed and I had the computer OC'd but when I had a problem with the computer me and a friend took it off and just couldn't get it back on again without cutting our hands to pieces so we gave up, might have to dig it out.

pooley · 23 Jul 2010 at 23:25

i concur what stulid has already stated. an ssd is an excellent upgrade, an extra 2gb of ram wouldn't go amiss for the 64 bit windows, and dig out the tuniq and oc your cpu to 3+ghz. those three things will do wonders for your rig.