what to upgrade

erbismi · 19 Jan 2008 at 15:28

Hi people, thinking of doing a bit of upgrading in the near future, but was wondering what would benefit my system the most, or, where the bottleneck is. Here's my specs:

C2D E6600 2.4Ghz
2GB 800Mhz Geil DDR2 RAM
BFG 8800 GTS 320MB OC2
520W corsair PSU
Gigabyte 965P-DS3 mobo
160GB HDD
Creative X-Fi fatal1ty edition

thanks in advance dudes

Beerbaron · 19 Jan 2008 at 15:34

depends how much you want to spend?

do you have a 32 or 64bit os?

erbismi · 19 Jan 2008 at 15:53

I'll spend £200-250 at the most probably. I have a 32bit OS

Jobe · 19 Jan 2008 at 16:21

you don't really need to upgrade anything with that system.
it should play most games to a v good level, though that would depend on the size of your monitor.....which is?

also you could clock your chip. most people are getting at least 3gig from theirs.

jobe

erbismi · 20 Jan 2008 at 11:00

my monitor is 19" so max res of 1280*1024. Clocking ma chip seems like the cheapest option, can anyone recommend a good air cooler that will oc well? thanks.

Jobe · 20 Jan 2008 at 11:30

at that res, like mine your spec is not being fully taxed. the arctic freezer 7 pro always gets good reviews.
have a look around the o'cing and cooling section, there's lots of advice in there.

jobe