Upgrade time? Upgrade time!

[Deiwos]

Right, I'm thinking of upgrading now that I can afford to spend a bit of cash on my computer. My current spec is as follows and I'm looking to spend £200-300, perhaps more if I can spread it over my next couple of pay packets.

nvidia 680i motherboard
Geforce GTS 8800 gfx card
3GB PC2-6400 memory
Core 2 E6600 processor
Some ancient 250GB HD
Windows XP
Antec 550W PSU

Forgot to say, this all goes in an Antec P180 case.

I'm definitely going to need a new HD, even if its just for storage (I like XP and don't really want to fork out on windows 7 just yet).

I'm a bit out of touch on processors and gfx cards so I reckon this'll be where most of my funds should go.

Thoughts/advice guys and girls?

 

[Mr_Orange]

If it's for gaming it's not really worth spending on an old architecture upgrade for the processor and a newer one (i5, i7) will need new mobo etc. so it's too expensive.

One of these: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-136-OK

and one of these: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1665

should do the trick if you want more gaming performance.

If you want to do things like video rendering a quad core like this: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-281-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=567 would help.


EDIT: I just checked and you would have to remove a drive tray from the p180 for the hd5780. See http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=15790922 for details.

 

[Deiwos]

If it's for gaming it's not really worth spending on an old architecture upgrade for the processor and a newer one (i5, i7) will need new mobo etc. so it's too expensive.

One of these: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-136-OK

and one of these: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1665

should do the trick if you want more gaming performance.

If you want to do things like video rendering a quad core like this: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-281-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=567 would help.

Definitely nothing like video rendering, although I had considered a new processor as the older quad cores are much cheaper now.

Thanks for the recommendations