Upgrade worth it?

nikonite

nikonite

nikonite

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Currently running this machine, been running a while now. Just wondering if there is any point upgrading right now and whether I will see much of a performance upgrade in doing so. I am thinking maybe a pair of ssd's would be my biggest improvement. As my work is on the machine I have always worried about ssd reliability after I had a kingston one which failed after 4 months.
I use my machine primarily as a photoshop machine dealing with some very large files and often lots of them open at the same time.

My current machine:

Asus Rampage II extreme
i7 920 overclocked to 3.8ghz very stable has been at 3.8 for over a year
16gb Corsair Vengeance ram (2 slots free on board 4 x 4gb in now) did have 24gb at one point but didn't see any difference really
Nvidia gtx 560 (also have a spare 460 if useable for anything)
1000W PSU from a Dell xps
2 x WD 1tb drives
4 x 500gb wd drives
have a few old 74gb raptors that are unused (thought about raiding and using as os / program only but never bothered)
Corsair H50 cooler
Blue ray drive

mainly wondering if there is anything about that would wow me in performance terms after this setup or should I hold off for a while?
Thanks Folks
 
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To be honest you have a great rig there still...

I don't think the amount of money that could be spent on a core (mobothboard, CPU and RAM) upgrade would be atall worth it..

Are you seeing any slow down atall?

SSD wise, i'd go a samsung EVO SSD.
 
I wouldn't change much to be honest in terms of components.

RAID0 on the raptors for an OS boot drive would be a sensible option without spending money, but an SSD would offer superior performance.

If your getting a solid 50-60+ FPS in most games then no need to change your GFX card, perhaps when BF4 comes out if you plan to play BF4 then a new GFX card might offer a good solution but you can judge that on release of the game.

Depending on budget 760's in SLI would perform comparable to a Titan while 770's in SLI will out perform a Titan and save you money.

Your mobo and CPU is not going to bottleneck you at this stage.
 
RHS said:
I wouldn't change much to be honest in terms of components.

RAID0 on the raptors for an OS boot drive would be a sensible option without spending money, but an SSD would offer superior performance.

If your getting a solid 50-60+ FPS in most games then no need to change your GFX card, perhaps when BF4 comes out if you plan to play BF4 then a new GFX card might offer a good solution but you can judge that on release of the game.

Depending on budget 760's in SLI would perform comparable to a Titan while 770's in SLI will out perform a Titan and save you money.

Your mobo and CPU is not going to bottleneck you at this stage.
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I use my machine primarily as a photoshop machine dealing with some very large files and often lots of them open at the same time.
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I have not really noticed a slow down but I am very aware the drives are likely the slowest point of the machine. I guess I am concerned about jumping to exclusive SSD as I was burned once and lost some stuff as a result. I think I would like to maybe get an SSD then add some sort of backup via rotational drives (preferably 2 drives with duplicate backups) Are the samsung drives the most reliable right now? I see OC has a deal on the 256gb 840 pro. I didn't realise they had come down in price so much, last time I looked you could not get 256gb for £190!
 
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