I've got a small budget which I could chuick at eithe rmy PC or my bike just now, wondered what people thought would go well with the PC... Got about £250 to spend just now.
I'm thinking it's either- good fan controller, Kama-Meter maybe. 2gb of decent RAM. E6300 or E6600. Since the RAM I have is sellable, I could push the budget slightly further if the RAM upgrade was included. Better speakers. vaguely considered a Raptor for my system drive, but maybe not...
ATM it's a:
2.8ghz Pentium D 820, which I run clocked to 3.5ghz- not exactly cutting edge, but not bad. FSB's up from 800 to 1000 effective.
DS3 board- well, it's just blown up, but I'm expecting a replacement. It's a keeper really, it was chosen for upgradability.
1.5ghz RAM with emphasis on the Random- it's 1ghz of DDR2 4000 Samsung and .5ghz of DDR2 3200, both running at 500mhz effective.
7950GT graphics card
Cheapy Creative Soundblaster sound card. No burning need to upgrade this, my speakers are nothing special anyway.
Dell 19" flatscreen- I'm happy with it, I've not see anything that's an upgrade within a reasonable budget, since I don't play many fast games its slowness is no real loss. And some sort of Creative 2-speaker-and-sub speakers. Could stand to improve those
And a 300gb Maxton, Diamondmax I think and 60gb Hitachi Deskstar do the remembering. Both SATA2. Nothing too spectacular but they work.
Whole thing's powered by a Corsair modular PSU, not an upgrade candidate as it arrived last week
It's all in an Akasa Zen case, pretty well cooled- a Titan Vanessa-L on the CPU, VF900 on the graphics card, and a fistful of Yate Loon and Nexus goodness creating the drafts. It's not a brilliant case but it works perfectly well, no annoying noises... Quite happy with it really.
Anything else I've overlooked? The mouse and keyboard are both the OEM Dell ones, but having not used anything better they suit me fine, I've not felt any shortcomings so far.
I'm thinking it's either- good fan controller, Kama-Meter maybe. 2gb of decent RAM. E6300 or E6600. Since the RAM I have is sellable, I could push the budget slightly further if the RAM upgrade was included. Better speakers. vaguely considered a Raptor for my system drive, but maybe not...
ATM it's a:
2.8ghz Pentium D 820, which I run clocked to 3.5ghz- not exactly cutting edge, but not bad. FSB's up from 800 to 1000 effective.
DS3 board- well, it's just blown up, but I'm expecting a replacement. It's a keeper really, it was chosen for upgradability.
1.5ghz RAM with emphasis on the Random- it's 1ghz of DDR2 4000 Samsung and .5ghz of DDR2 3200, both running at 500mhz effective.
7950GT graphics card
Cheapy Creative Soundblaster sound card. No burning need to upgrade this, my speakers are nothing special anyway.
Dell 19" flatscreen- I'm happy with it, I've not see anything that's an upgrade within a reasonable budget, since I don't play many fast games its slowness is no real loss. And some sort of Creative 2-speaker-and-sub speakers. Could stand to improve those
And a 300gb Maxton, Diamondmax I think and 60gb Hitachi Deskstar do the remembering. Both SATA2. Nothing too spectacular but they work.
Whole thing's powered by a Corsair modular PSU, not an upgrade candidate as it arrived last week
It's all in an Akasa Zen case, pretty well cooled- a Titan Vanessa-L on the CPU, VF900 on the graphics card, and a fistful of Yate Loon and Nexus goodness creating the drafts. It's not a brilliant case but it works perfectly well, no annoying noises... Quite happy with it really.
Anything else I've overlooked? The mouse and keyboard are both the OEM Dell ones, but having not used anything better they suit me fine, I've not felt any shortcomings so far.
