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grudas

grudas

grudas

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Hi guys

I need to give my PC a bit of a kick, budget lets say £250 max.

Current spec -;

CPU - Phenom 955 BE
RAM - DDR2 4gb(4x1)
GPU - 5850 1GB
NO SSD


I was thinking of a new mobo, ddr3 ram and a 120ish GB SSD for OS.

any advice on which way to go? CPU is IMO fine as it is and I'd like to keep it but I've been out of the game for so long I'm not sure which mobo is a nice upgrade that would also support the socket and be future proof(2years ish)

Thanks
 
grudas said:
Hi guys

I need to give my PC a bit of a kick, budget lets say £250 max.

Current spec -;

CPU - Phenom 955 BE
RAM - DDR2 4gb(4x1)
GPU - 5850 1GB
NO SSD


I was thinking of a new mobo, ddr3 ram and a 120ish GB SSD for OS.

any advice on which way to go? CPU is IMO fine as it is and I'd like to keep it but I've been out of the game for so long I'm not sure which mobo is a nice upgrade that would also support the socket and be future proof(2years ish)

Thanks
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Serious question, but aside from the SSD, why do you *want* to upgrade? Is there a reason? Do you want just better overall performance, or are you hoping for better gaming performance?

If you're not using it for gaming or any calculation-intensive tasks, then I'd recommend just putting in the SSD, or going for a larger SSD and partitioning it, and putting any disk-intensive data on there.

Or, buy a 120Gb SSD now, and wait till the prices drop until you can sensibly pick up a 500Gb SSD for all your data.
 
dacads said:
Stretch your budget a little more and you can also get a new CPU such as the FX-6300

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £101.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £53.99
Total : £231.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).

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I sort of agree, but that spec is too pricey for what it is.

And going the that SSD over the EVO with only £2 in it, is madness.

If you wanted more Gaming performance:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 270 Gaming Edition OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £137.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £67.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £47.99
Total : £314.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).



If it was just allround working performance remove the R9 270 from the spec :)
 
matt_fsr said:
Serious question, but aside from the SSD, why do you *want* to upgrade? Is there a reason? Do you want just better overall performance, or are you hoping for better gaming performance?

If you're not using it for gaming or any calculation-intensive tasks, then I'd recommend just putting in the SSD, or going for a larger SSD and partitioning it, and putting any disk-intensive data on there.

Or, buy a 120Gb SSD now, and wait till the prices drop until you can sensibly pick up a 500Gb SSD for all your data.
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I Don't do much gaming due to time and my 5850 seems to handle everything I need for now, I can always upgrade the GPU in the future so it's mainly all around performance.

I do use my pc for 3d modeling, photoshop etc so GPU does get a bit of a kick but nothing serious.

overall I'd say my SATA HD's are slowing the whole system down and I'm running 50-60% of my ram on IDLE so 8gb-12gb would be a nice ugprade over current 4gb.

thanks for suggestions everyone, I'll take a look.
 
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