Well i have just got a bonus at work and wanted to get something as a "well done" to myself so I was wondering what to get.
My Specs at present are:
Athlon 64 3700+ overclocked
MSI SLI Platinum mobo
2 x 7200rpm 8mb cache HDDs (not raided, maxtor and a spinpoint)
x1900xt
1GB Corsair 3200XL
600W OCZ PSU
All watercooled
fpw2004
I was thinking of getting a 150GB Raptor to run windows and games and use the other 2 HDD as storage units. I was wondering whether this would make much of a difference to my system, which is kept relatively "neat and tidy" and quite quick.
but then I wondered about upgrading my RAM to 2GB might give me a better performance boost, although i mostly play HL2 based games such as DoD:S (not BF2), so given that I will probably get a Conroe or a new Athlon I will be getting DDR2 memory relatively soon, so long term I may not get much use out of a 2 gig set
Can anyone suggest anything else that would help
My main criteria are: £ to performance ratio;and life of product (not until failure but for how long it will remain a good performance part.
Any help would be most appreciated
My Specs at present are:
Athlon 64 3700+ overclocked
MSI SLI Platinum mobo
2 x 7200rpm 8mb cache HDDs (not raided, maxtor and a spinpoint)
x1900xt
1GB Corsair 3200XL
600W OCZ PSU
All watercooled
fpw2004
I was thinking of getting a 150GB Raptor to run windows and games and use the other 2 HDD as storage units. I was wondering whether this would make much of a difference to my system, which is kept relatively "neat and tidy" and quite quick.
but then I wondered about upgrading my RAM to 2GB might give me a better performance boost, although i mostly play HL2 based games such as DoD:S (not BF2), so given that I will probably get a Conroe or a new Athlon I will be getting DDR2 memory relatively soon, so long term I may not get much use out of a 2 gig set
Can anyone suggest anything else that would help
My main criteria are: £ to performance ratio;and life of product (not until failure but for how long it will remain a good performance part.
Any help would be most appreciated
