what to upgrade next?

Mp4

Mp4

Mp4

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Well i bought some upgrades last year

Asus maximus extreme:

http://uk.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=m39mcE6kVFexlQhK


Intel: quad core Q6600 2.40GHZ can clock to 3.30 (but not overclocked)

Corsair: DDR3 DHX 13339DHX 2GIG

my GFX cards are ATI x1900's - Crossfire

But i want to upgrade ready for windows 7 as i've not touched Vista & pref 100% new graphics card that owns the x1900s as ive not even played crysis etc as they struggle a lot i feel.

no budget

Thanks MP4
 
^ ive never OC'd any of my gear before & wouldnt know how :D

& don't really need to
 
So can anyone spec me any new gear? :P i've not kept upto date what so ever!
 
How does this look, can re-use your memory.

GX-195-SP_60.jpg
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.98
(£130.42) £149.98
(£130.42)
CP-244-AM_60.jpg
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £149.98
(£130.42) £149.98
(£130.42)
MB-168-GI_60.jpg
Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £107.99
(£93.90) £107.99
(£93.90) Sub Total : £354.74 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50 VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £54.64 Total : £418.88
 
^ Thanks for that RJC but i really didnt want to upgrade my motherboard or CPU as i think that will last me a while yet as i only upgraded last year!

i think Mainly im looking for:

W&D HDD -SATA

New GFX Card

& 8GIG RAM - Fastest i can use for my motherboard


No budget
 
Thanks Sium , what do you mean by SSD?

i do have a diffrent heatsink on the CPU as it is now - Cant remember what it is tho ..lol some massive beast of a thing
 
a solid state hard drive it significantly speeds up your operating system and programs:D but make sure you choose a proper one but it will be at least 200-300£ btw

anyways you could even buy 2 4890s if you wanted to:D
 
Use your hard drive you have just now for storage :p

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
GX-195-AS_60.jpg
Asus ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £164.99
(£143.47) £164.99
(£143.47)
HD-071-SA_60.jpg
Samsung 64GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (MMCRE64G5MPP-0VA00) £90.99
(£79.12) £90.99
(£79.12)
MY-193-CS_60.jpg
Corsair Dominator XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600C9D Twin3X (TW3X4G1600C9D) £63.99
(£55.64) £127.98
(£111.28) Sub Total : £333.87 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : FREE VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £51.51 Total : £384.88
 
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was gna spec the intel SSDs lol as he did say money is not problem hehehe but yeh u wudnt really get any gain in performance with that SSD because the write/read speeds are the same as SATA ll drives tbh:D
 
Thanks for all that everyone :)

for sure going to order the HD 8490(hmm tempted to get 2x n crossfire em) and the Dominator RAM - 8GIG tho :P

will cost about £305 inc delivery :D for 1 GFX Card n 8GIG Mem

&atm i have 300GIG left on HDD n 200GIG left on external HDD so might pass on that n get a new computer case ?

I've a coolermaster CM Stacker - a tad old now :D
 
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