Hi all,
I would appreciate your advice on upgrading my PC. I've had advice from here before on upgrading my graphics card and PSU and the recommendations have always been spot on.
I think it is (finally) time to make the jump to SSD. I am currently using about 560gb of my 1tb HDD. My motherboard has 2x SATA 6gb/s slots and 4x SATA 3gb/s
What is the best way to upgrade, a single large SSD, a smaller SSD and an external HDD or 2 smaller SSDs? What product do you recommend?
My other question was regarding RAM, I was thinking of upgrading to 2x 8gb ddr3 and was looking at the ones below, will this make a difference to my performance or better to wait until some point in the future when I get a new motherboard/processor (probably in a couple of years). My motherboard has 2x DDR3 slots
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/king...ual-channel-kit-hx318c9srk2-16-my-207-ks.html
Finally, if you think there is a better way to upgrade than SSD or RAM, I'd appreciate your thoughts
My build:
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i5-2500k Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard ASUS® P8Z77-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX
Memory (RAM) 8GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Hard Disk 1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
GeForce GTX 970 TURBO OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 12x BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW
Power Supply Superflower Leadex Gold 550W "80 Plus" Power Supply
Processor Cooling INTEL SOCKET LGA1155 STANDARD CPU COOLER
Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO
1440p Monitor
I would appreciate your advice on upgrading my PC. I've had advice from here before on upgrading my graphics card and PSU and the recommendations have always been spot on.
I think it is (finally) time to make the jump to SSD. I am currently using about 560gb of my 1tb HDD. My motherboard has 2x SATA 6gb/s slots and 4x SATA 3gb/s
What is the best way to upgrade, a single large SSD, a smaller SSD and an external HDD or 2 smaller SSDs? What product do you recommend?
My other question was regarding RAM, I was thinking of upgrading to 2x 8gb ddr3 and was looking at the ones below, will this make a difference to my performance or better to wait until some point in the future when I get a new motherboard/processor (probably in a couple of years). My motherboard has 2x DDR3 slots
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/king...ual-channel-kit-hx318c9srk2-16-my-207-ks.html
Finally, if you think there is a better way to upgrade than SSD or RAM, I'd appreciate your thoughts
My build:
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i5-2500k Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard ASUS® P8Z77-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX
Memory (RAM) 8GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Hard Disk 1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
GeForce GTX 970 TURBO OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 12x BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW
Power Supply Superflower Leadex Gold 550W "80 Plus" Power Supply
Processor Cooling INTEL SOCKET LGA1155 STANDARD CPU COOLER
Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO
1440p Monitor
