What to do...

TheDean · 22 Mar 2009 at 17:36

Hi all,

I feel it's upgrade time! Thinking my main rig does need a bit more attention than the Media Pc, but more than happy to take suggestions and ideas on board for both. I was also considering some kind of network storage solution as neither the main rig or Media Pc have a backup solution in case of failure. To be honest, this would really only be important for the Media Pc as it does have a lot of stuff which would be a hassle to replace, including a large amount of HD content.

Media Pc
XFX nForce 630i Geforce 7100 motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6 ghz CPU
2GB PC5300 Geil Ram with silver heat spreader
Pioneer DVD-R 212 SATA DVD Rewriter
Enermax 400w liberty modular PSU
Silverstone Lascala SST-LC13B - Black
2 x 1TB WD HD ( One is very nearly full)

Main Rig
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3
Pioneer DVR-111BK (Possibly borked...buffers when burning often fail)
E6300 with Tuniq Tower
X-Fi Extreme Music
Corsair 620W Modular PSU
2GB Crucial Anni
8800GTS 512MB
320GB WD HD

All ideas welcome - so suggest away! It may be worth noting that I do have a Samsung netbook as well.

Cheers in advance!

TheDean

95thrifles · 22 Mar 2009 at 17:59

Whats your budget like? ballpark at least

TheDean · 22 Mar 2009 at 18:06

No more than £500 I wouldn't have thought.....I was thinking of a total over haul of the main rig, so it could be idea to cost that out?

siumatfung · 22 Mar 2009 at 18:21

defo keep the PSU unless u want a complete new system

TheDean · 22 Mar 2009 at 18:32

siumatfung said:
defo keep the PSU unless u want a complete new system

The PSU is a cracker....no need to get rid

I was thinking RAM & CPU upgrade on the Main Rig. I imagine 4Gig & Quadcore would provide a decent boost for not much cash?

siumatfung · 23 Mar 2009 at 00:54

jus overclock the CPU you will notcie the performance boost

cos quadcore doesnt relly have much over dual unless your getting a Phenom ll

TheDean · 23 Mar 2009 at 09:23

siumatfung said:
jus overclock the CPU you will notcie the performance boost

cos quadcore doesnt relly have much over dual unless your getting a Phenom ll

I would have thought chucking in a quad-core and 4GB of RAM would give it a huge performance boost??!!

siumatfung · 23 Mar 2009 at 11:22

check out this guys thread it will show you the exact comparison bwtween all intel cpus stock to overclock

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17929621

TheDean · 23 Mar 2009 at 21:07

Still can't believe nobody has recommended an upgrade

mp260767 · 23 Mar 2009 at 21:48

TheDean said:
Still can't believe nobody has recommended an upgrade

main reason is theres not a lot wrong with either spec.

obvious thing is replacement dvd-rw, maybe take the one out of the media centre and put that into your main rig then get a blue ray/hd player for the media rig ?

could have a go at overclocking the e6300 as mentioned above.

whats your main rig used for ?

Sash · 24 Mar 2009 at 08:04

Do you have a router? Some routers have a usb port on them to hook up a hard drive. It would be useful for your network storage.

siumatfung · 25 Mar 2009 at 10:17

no one has recommended an upgrade unless u have cash to burn just build a new pc

upgrading sucks cos it jus ends up being a waste of money unless u held back when building the system in the first place if u replace the cpu then the gfx will be the bottle neck then u will want to replace that you see

i only paid 90£ for my 8800Gt last year but im gna get a GTX260 maxi core when my loan comes thru