What should I upgrade next?

mattius1989

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Ok, so you can see in my sig what I currently have in my rig. The PC is mainly used for gaming (99.9% of the time). I mainly play games like Shogun, a few FPS, and will be getting Skyrim when it is released.

I am thinking of upgrading my RAM for a bit of a performance boost, but will I see one? I am looking at getting up to 8GB in my system. Will this be best achieved with 4 sticks of 2GB or two sticks of 4GB? My CPU heatsink tends to block off a lot of high profile memory sticks. Can somebody reccomend the best RAM I could buy for my rig?

But on the other hand I am thinking maybe I should buy the top PHII X6, the 1100t. But as I am mainly gaming? Should I step down two cores and get the best X4, the 980?

Or maybe get an SSD? Or a new CPU cooler?

I imagine for performance the best thing I could do is buy a new MB and get on to SandyBridge, but I don't really want to go down that route just yet as my current MB is only about 2 years old.

Basically, what should I upgrade next. Thanks in advance for any advice anybody can give.
 
For games like Total War where you are frequently moving between the campaign map and battles an SSD would help with the load times. I believe Shogun is a bit poor for load times so this would maybe be a good move.
 
have a look at the crucial m4.

don't really see much else to be changed that would be improved enough to make it worthwhile, could up the memory, if you've got 2x2gb could always add 2x4gb into the other memory slots or just get another 2x2gb kit.
 
Looking at this thread on the Storage forum it seems that you should look at getting your RAM up to 8GB then look at getting an SSD.

"Presuming your on Windows 7 64, I would upgrade memory from 4GB to 8GB. Windows 7 will cache certain files in standby memory, and once your applications / data has loaded you'll find many file requests are read back from the cache. Files accessed from standby memory is far quicker then any SSD." JasonM

So would getting my RAM up to 8GB then going to an SSD be the way to go? Thanks.
 
never really seen a requirement to have a decent amount of memory prior to installing an ssd, so whichever way round you fancy should be fine.
 
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