System upgrade advice

fman

fman

fman

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Hi guys, I'm looking for some advice on upgrading or replacing my twin sons pc's. I'll give the current spec first:
1. Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual core 5000+ 2.6ghz
6GB Ram
Graphics Card, Sapphire Radeon HD5770
Motherboard, MSI MS-7368
Hard drive 500GB sata
64 bit windows 7

2.Processor AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2Ghz
4GB ram
Graphics Card Nvidia Gforce GTX460
Motherboard Asus M4A78LT-M
Hard drive 500GB sata
64 bit windows 7

Main use is gaming, PC 1 is mainly world of warcraft
PC 2 is World of warcraft, Bioshock infinate, Nosgoth, The Witcher 2, Smite, Heroes of the storm, The Talos Principle, Fallout 3, and Sanctum 2.

Would I be best to replace both with something from overclockers, upgrade components in both or replace hdd's with solid state drives.
any advice appreciated.
 
Can anyone offer any advice on this, they're looking for this as their 18th birthday present which is at the end of this month, so I don't have a lot of time to sort it:) cheers.
 
Thanks for your advice, I'm not really up on gaming specs but I'm sure your choices are good, I will add ssd drives as well as soon as I can. I'll check out your suggestions on overclockers site tomorrow. Cheers
 
Thanks guys, I just had a look on the website, they only have 1 graphics card in stock, do they get more stock in quickly or should I get a different card.
Also could you recommend a couple of ssd's and i'll see if i can stretch to that.
cheers
 
Stuff hasn't arrived yet hence no update on how I got on, turned out the motherboard bundles were out of stock! But they're in now and I should have them this week:)
I have one more question in the mean time: what is the handiest way to install windows on the new machines? One was on windows 7 and the other one has upgraded from windows 8 to 10.
I have both discs and windows 7 product key, but can't find windows 8 product key.

Cheers
 
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Parts arrived yesterday, so got one machine built and running last night, got windows 7 activated with existing product key. First son is well pleased with the performance, no comparison to the old machine:)
I'm going to build the other machine tonight. I can't get the product key for this machine, he upgraded windows 8 to 10, I have windows 8 disc but I think it is an upgrade and not a full installation disc. I have tried extracting the key from the registry but it comes up with an error.
Any suggestions?
 
Thanks guys, spent 45 mins on the phone to Microsoft and didn't get answered so looks like I'm going to have to buy a new key. I have the second pc up and running now.installing drivers and stuff.
Can you recommend somewhere to purchase a product key for windows 7 home premium?
 
Ok cheers. I'll have a look around.
The two boys are well pleased with their new machines, they're trying all their games on the highest setting and are well pleased with the results, so could I say a big thank you to anyone who helped, especially jinxter who came up with the hardware suggestion.

Cheers guys
 
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