Upgrade CPU of buy SSD

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Upgrade CPU or buy SSD?

Interesting choice me thinks.

Upgrade from an Intel Quad Core 2.4G to 3.0g or

Buy a Crucial SSD 64gig drive for OS only (Not data as I have have a normal SATA drive for that)

Computer has 4 gig ram and is mainly used for photoshop and some games
 
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Are you asking for advice on this?

Do nothing. Save your money, overclock the CPU to 3.0GHz (it'll do it quite easily) and if you're running the stock cooler, just spend £20 on a freezer pro 7 rev.2

SSD's don't give *that* much more performance. If you're planning on installing games and stuff to your magnetic drive, you'll lose out on the performance gain of the SSD anyway. 64GB isn't a huge amount when you're looking at modern games. 6GB per game gives you 10 games before its full, even if you don't have an OS installed on it.

If you install photoshop on the SSD, you may get some performance gain from that, as it'll decrease lag and increase transfer speeds a bit, but i doubt it'll be noticeable.
 
Cheers for the speedy reply and yes I was aking for advice

As for over clocking I am running a Dell so I would think it would be difficult?

Of course I could but the cheaper Kingston and invest more on the CPU
 
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Mods can you amend the title to take into account the typo and add a question mark, thanks
 
Personally Im waiting until SSDs are a bit more developed, I want one but in my eyes the prices are still a bit unreasonable.
 
SSD prices are high, and capacity is low. Not a good combination. For the price, I don't think they're worth it.

As for running a Dell, you're not going to have much luck overclocking, if you can even get into the BIOS. You're going to get more performance gain from a cpu upgrade, so that gets my vote.
 
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As for running a Dell, you're not going to have much luck overclocking, if you can even get into the BIOS. You're going to get more performance gain from a cpu upgrade, so that gets my vote.
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Thats what I thought re overclocking the Dell, there is a 2nd hand quad core of another forum for about £180. Its a retail one
 
SSD for me. Its made everything so much easier and everything is just so fast. From the sounds of things you're not wanting to keep your CPU so here is my advice.

You can take your super fast SSD with you whenever you upgrade, so there is no wasting money there.

If you were to upgrade your CPU and again in a years time, chances are you'll be replacing everything else because of migrating to a new socket.

I vouch that if you get a SSD, your computer will feel faster than brand new. But if you play a lot of graphics intensive games, then that could depend on your graphics card aswell as your CPU.
 
Ok, cheers agin for your time

SMandy -
Yes I though £180 was a bit high but I would have thougt an offer of £160 may secure it. haing looked here - http://www.cpubenchmark.net/common_cpus.html, I do see what you mean. My 2.4 Quad is looking dated in comparison :(. So even thought its only a jump of .2ghz everything else makes up for that.

OCP -
You point re the SSD is valid form the moving from one machine to another.

I have just bought an ATI 5770
 
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