What next? (Upgrade advice)

[arrond]

Spec in sig.
Budget £200
Current OS:Windows XP (no plans to go Vista yet)
Playing res: 1280x1024

My x1900xt has served me well but struggling with STALKER, Crysis etc
I dont think theres any need for another 2gb RAM.

I was thinking of getting one of these:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-129-LT&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1008

Looking to overclock the card and the Zalman cooler should help keep those temps down.

The rest of the budget could go on a new mouse or something.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
Arron.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Sounds like a nice upgrade.

For 187.99 you can get a new GTS which would be even better with those shader-intensive games.

 

[arrond]

Will the GTS be an overkill for 1280x1024? Then again I am hoping for a new monitor by the summer (1680x1050 hopefully, the new 22inch LG looks nice). Will my CPU bottleneck the GTS?

Thanks for the reply.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Nah, the CPU won't bottleneck it much at 3.2 GHz. It'd be very nice. If you find that it's overkill you can always crank up the AA and AF to bring it to its knees.

 

[arrond]

Thanks again for the advice. The GTS is now looking a lot more tempting