What next upgrade for under £100?

ChrisGTL

ChrisGTL

ChrisGTL

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I've been upgrading my pc lately and got to the following spec :-

i5-2500k
MSI P67 GA65
4GB 1300Mhz XMS3
1GB 460GTX
Audigy SE
Hyper Type M 580w
OCZ Vertex3 SSD 120GB
Cavier 1TB SATA

Windows 7 64bit

Can anyone recommend my next upgrade? Money us burning hole in my pocket. Lol
 
To be honest, most components for £100 would be a downgrade from your current position. What do you use the PC for and is there anything you feel "held back" when doing?

How are your keyboard/mouse/screen? Might be most beneficial spending your money in that area?

Also, your spec says 580W PSU, your sig says 530W, just thought you might like to know to correct the wrong un :)
 
Phenomenologica said:
I imagine it won't be long till someone tells you to spend the money replacing that PSU before it blows up. :p Hiper PSUs seem to have a bit of a reputation around these parts.
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That was the Type-R, in particular the 580W ones (yes, I had one and stopped using it after reading the thread!). The Type-M was a very reliable unit and I've still got an 880W in step-son's PC going fine.
 
Cheers for the replies...

I've just bought myself the logitec 500 mouse for gaming which I'm really happy with. My keyboard is the most basic compaq one which suits my gaming style.

Monitor is a samsung 22 inch, I've not had too long and its good size for my desk.

I could get another 1TB drive and raid it but its space i'll never fill.

I have the titan fenrir cooler which I dint like because its a nightmare to take off and out in but I dont so that very often so guess its not major important.

Would I see any difference getting more Ram or replacing with faster modules...?
 
7.1 card and surround gaming headset?

2x4GB memory? But my guess is you're happy with 4 already. Or save money for another £200 and get a top graphics card. And maybe a PSU while you're at it.
 
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ChrisGTL said:
I could get another 1TB drive and raid it but its space i'll never fill.

Would I see any difference getting more Ram or replacing with faster modules...?
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They meant raid 0. It won't increase the storage space. Just the read/write speeds.

Also not worth changing the ram tbh. You seem like you want to spend money for no reason. Might as well spend it by upgrading case/cooling/quietness.

I'd consider sli 460's and a new psu. Needs more money though.
 
I always thaught raid 0 combined both drives into one big one with faster read and write speeds. e.g. 2x500GB drives in raid 0 shows up as a 1TB drive.

for £100 I would either get a sound card or a new PSU in anticipation of needing something more powerful in future. As others have said save your money for a bigger upgrade later down the line.
 
No Raid0 splits the data over both drives so when accessing files it can read from two drives at once, potentially doubling the read/write speeds. This does however mean you get 500Gb from 2x500Gb drives in Raid0 configuration, not 1Tb.

For just a little over £100 you could get yourself another 460 (or second hand for £100). 460 SLI is a very powerful setup. I don't know how well your PSU would cope with that though, would have to check the required power of those cards.
 
Ok, so PSU it is then.

Which one to get for £100ish?

This will be for future proofing with aim to get 460sli setup.
 
Personally, if I was buying a new psu with aims of future proofing for sli I'd get 950w. SLi 480s require upwards of 950w and general gpu power consumption is coming down again. For instance sli 580s need less than 480s. So 950w should be a realistic maximum required for sli/CF for the foreseeable future.

Personally, if you have a decent case I recommend the corsair 950w TX but it comes in at £120. OCUK used to sell it for £125 but it's disappeared. I own one and it shall be powering sli 480s when it gets delivered.

If your case can't handle that many cables hanging about (Ie, not easy cable management) then I'd go for a XFX black edition 850w. It's modular so the excess cables wont be a problem and will likely be fine for SLI for quite some time but not as future proof.

SLI 460s can be done on 750w psu, just for the record.
 
8igdave said:
I'd go for a XFX black edition 850w. It's modular so the excess cables wont be a problem and will likely be fine for SLI for quite some time but not as future proof
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is there any point in modular if you going to be SLIing? youll be using all the cables anyway, modular or not, so your paying a premium for modular for nothing i think...
 
panyan said:
is there any point in modular if you going to be SLIing? youll be using all the cables anyway, modular or not, so your paying a premium for modular for nothing i think...
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Most certainly. Maybe not on a lower powered psu but on my 950w (which isn't modular) I have at least 5 (maybe 6) extra cables even with SLI because I only have 2 hard drives and 1 optical drive. Plus I get 6 PCI-E power cables anyway.
 
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