What should I upgrade first? Whole system?

[Cashman]

Hi guys,

I used to be well into my overclocking and gaming and I still enjoy the idea of it but gone are the days when I can justify spending £1000's each year on my PC.

I have had a Vapochill and then a Mach II GT and loved messing with £300 worth of BH-5 Ram but those days are the last I bothered upgrading from really.

For the past 4 years I have had a watercooled rig with a HE120.3.
AMD X2 4800+
2x1gb Crucial Ballistix PC4000
DFI Lanparty SLI-DR
8800GTS 640mb
74gb Raptor plus all the normal stuff and running XP.

I do like to play the odd game and I have a 22" widescreen Iiyama.

Basically.... what should I do?

Is it a new system that's required? Or just a new mobo, ram and cpu? of just gfx to get a decent gain?

Cheers for the help!

 

[Cashman]

that sounds good mate! Thank you!

Are the Intel CPU's back to being any good? I know that Intel have dominated since I had my new rig.

I have a LIan Li PC75 tower so I'm ok for case. I have an OCZ POwerstream 600w psu, that should still be ok do you think>?

What are these solid state hard drives like? Would you be using that for the system disk instead of my raptor? I assume solid state are VERY quick?

Cheers for all the help!