Upgrades £840 to spend

atmax1 · 4 Apr 2010 at 10:56

Parts I have
- Intel i7 920
- Foxconn bloodrage GTI mobo
- G.Skill Trident 6GB
- ATI Sapphire 5850
- 2x Samsung 1tb drives almost both full
- 500gb wd black (for windows and games)
- H50-1 cpu cooler
- antec 1200 case
- Coolmaster 1000w psu
- Run Windows 7 64bit

I don't want a windowed case any more and I want a smaller case (Maybe the Fractal Design Define R2 Midi)? also the foxcon bloodrange gti mobo seems to not like starting sometimes so i want to get another mobo.

I was thinking maybe this for upgrades

- Another sapphire 5850 (for games like metro and crysis)
was going to get nvidia (for coda and since adobe cs5 will use nvidia tech) in till i saw the results

- Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) (sata 6gb mobo)
- OCZ Vertex 60GB 2.5" SATA-II (ssd)
- Fractal Design Define R2 Midi Tower Case - Titanium Grey
- Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB
- Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular SLI

Total : £835.6

Any better ideas?

DavieJG · 4 Apr 2010 at 12:00

why the psu change?

atmax1 · 4 Apr 2010 at 12:08

that is just a maybe, and because its very loud.. and people rate all corsair psus

Randomface74 · 4 Apr 2010 at 12:15

get another hard drive, and case if u want. but u dont need anything else.

OpenToSuggestions · 4 Apr 2010 at 12:22

Sounds to me like you just want to blow your money.

The only things you should be looking at is another 5850 or an ssd imo.

atmax1 · 4 Apr 2010 at 12:28

billysielu said:
get another hard drive, and case if u want. but u dont need anything else.

The motherboard is something I'm going to upgrade 100% as the foxconn not starting sometimes is very annoying, it don't seem to like 4ghz

Also I game at 1920x1200 and like to turn everything up (may also grab another monitor) so I think a 5850 would be nice to have, so 2x5850s in crossfire should last me a few years?

I'm on my pc almost all the time working and when I can gaming (if i ant then I'm out with mates or sleeping) as i work on it plus game so to me if i got the money spare to speed I will.

atmax1 · 4 Apr 2010 at 12:35

mglover070588 said:
Sounds to me like you just want to blow your money.

The only things you should be looking at is another 5850 or an ssd imo.

The motherboard is poor and don't like to start up, so once or twice a week I'm taking the side off my case and resetting it then re doing the overclock in the bios (other people have this problem with this motherboard)

The case - I tried doing a custom paint job etc and messed it up so would like a smart looking case, nothing with a window or anything.

ssd and a 5850 is what i would like to have and i need another tb drive as i got about 100gb in total from both the tb drives.

McstylisT · 4 Apr 2010 at 13:27

atmax1 said:
Parts I have
- Intel i7 920
- Foxconn bloodrage GTI mobo
- G.Skill Trident 6GB
- ATI Sapphire 5850
- 2x Samsung 1tb drives almost both full
- 500gb wd black (for windows and games)
- H50-1 cpu cooler
- antec 1200 case
- Coolmaster 1000w psu
- Run Windows 7 64bit

I don't want a windowed case any more and I want a smaller case (Maybe the Fractal Design Define R2 Midi)? also the foxcon bloodrange gti mobo seems to not like starting sometimes so i want to get another mobo.

I was thinking maybe this for upgrades

- Another sapphire 5850 (for games like metro and crysis)
was going to get nvidia (for coda and since adobe cs5 will use nvidia tech) in till i saw the results

- Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) (sata 6gb mobo)
- OCZ Vertex 60GB 2.5" SATA-II (ssd)
- Fractal Design Define R2 Midi Tower Case - Titanium Grey
- Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB
- Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular SLI

Total : £835.6

Any better ideas?

If this was me personally , and I had your budget spare to spend on upgrades this would be my options

Motherboard , Go for the new EXUD5 , cooler north & south bridges for gaming. The UD3R is a great board but you want the highest level of quality with that budget.

Grab a 2TB HD , possibly a green version or something. Large storage and runs cool.

another 5850 for your crossfire

Your chosen case

For me that is it. Would only consider a decent sized SSD with the higher transfer rates. So maybe a 128GB in the future. The current PSU is fine. Especially now your going to be using 2x 5850's.

I am sure you can recoup some cash on the foxconn mobo too.

Best of luck.

McT

atmax1 · 4 Apr 2010 at 13:43

Thanks McstylisT

, what is the EXUD5 motherboard? do you have a link?

dangerstat · 4 Apr 2010 at 13:56

Looking at your original post, the thing that stands out to be is your hard disk usage. If I had that much data with no mirroring I'd be buying a good NAS, which is what I think you should do. Get a good quality 4-6 bay NAS and stack it full of 1-2TB drives and have some sort of reasonable RAID configuration for reliability. If you weren't using so much disk space I'd say get an SSD as of the options you've listed it's the single upgrade which you'd notice the performance increase from.

atmax1 · 4 Apr 2010 at 14:27

Thank's dangerstat, I do have 2 1tb nas drives that I store copy's of all my important files on, and later down the line I do plan on going half's with my dad and getting a 4 - 6 bay nas or maybe build or get my hands on a server.