Upgrade?

[grudas]

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]

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.

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.