Hi all,
I'm feeling frivolous and I'm wondering whether I should upgrade anything on my computer for the next 6-12 months onwards, in terms of essential or highly-recommended steps upwards. I'll have a budget of around £500-650 to start as I do not want to throw too much money away on an upgrade, as opposed to a fully new system set-up.
I absolutely first and foremost need a new SATA main-drive, my current hard-drive is on its very last legs and often fails and goes into 'clicks of death' mode- I have all the important data backed up to external eSata but I still need an actual primary OS/apps drive. Only 2-3 months ago I bought a WD Blue Caviar SATA drive that was pretty much delivered stillborn but I could not return it properly because I was at University-- besides, I do not mind the £50-100 expense of a decent hard-drive! I'm ideally looking for a SATA drive with decent (gaming) performance anywhere between 320Gb-1Tb. Spec me one please from the OCUK shop, will order asap!
Current system specs in regard to general GPU/CPU/RAM upgrades:
Q6600 @ 3.2Ghz (Tuniq Tower at the moment)
EVGA 8800GTX OC'd.
4Gb PC2-8500+ RAM
Creative! X-Fi Gamer sound-card.
Standard peripherals; Logitech G5/G15
Just wondering if there are any possible and worthy replacements to be made to graphics card or processor that are actually worth their buck. I'm aware of the core i7 / DDR3 alternatives but that is more of a full-system spec due to motherboard constraints etc.
Thanks very much! Hope to be lavishing some cash out on new OcUK products soon!
I'm feeling frivolous and I'm wondering whether I should upgrade anything on my computer for the next 6-12 months onwards, in terms of essential or highly-recommended steps upwards. I'll have a budget of around £500-650 to start as I do not want to throw too much money away on an upgrade, as opposed to a fully new system set-up.
I absolutely first and foremost need a new SATA main-drive, my current hard-drive is on its very last legs and often fails and goes into 'clicks of death' mode- I have all the important data backed up to external eSata but I still need an actual primary OS/apps drive. Only 2-3 months ago I bought a WD Blue Caviar SATA drive that was pretty much delivered stillborn but I could not return it properly because I was at University-- besides, I do not mind the £50-100 expense of a decent hard-drive! I'm ideally looking for a SATA drive with decent (gaming) performance anywhere between 320Gb-1Tb. Spec me one please from the OCUK shop, will order asap!
Current system specs in regard to general GPU/CPU/RAM upgrades:
Q6600 @ 3.2Ghz (Tuniq Tower at the moment)
EVGA 8800GTX OC'd.
4Gb PC2-8500+ RAM
Creative! X-Fi Gamer sound-card.
Standard peripherals; Logitech G5/G15
Just wondering if there are any possible and worthy replacements to be made to graphics card or processor that are actually worth their buck. I'm aware of the core i7 / DDR3 alternatives but that is more of a full-system spec due to motherboard constraints etc.
Thanks very much! Hope to be lavishing some cash out on new OcUK products soon!
