Yearly Bouns Time: Upgrade Iimminent

mysticsniper

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I will be getting my annual bonus from my work, and after tax it will be around £500. Was thinking of a new graphic's card if its really worth it at the moment, or maybe upgrading to 2Gb of RAM anf saving the rest :confused:

My System:

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) CPU Cooler (Socket 939)
DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
ThermalRight SI-120 Cooler (Socket 939)
Vantec Stealth Fan 120mm
HIS Excalibur Radeon X850 XT PE 256MB DDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
OCZ 1GB (2 x 512MB) PC4800 Elite Edition Dual Channel Platinum Series
2x Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM SATA
2x Coolermaster Cooldrive 6 Hard Disk Cooler
Samsung SM-930BF 19" LCD Monitor
Creative SoundBlaster Audigy4 Pro
Logitech Z-5500 THX® Certified 5.1 505 Watts Speakers
Pioneer DVR-110DBK
Pioneer DVR-109
Samsung 3.5" Silver Floppy Disk Drive
Antec NeoPower 480W ATX2.0 PSU
CoolerMaster Stacker STC-T01 with Side Window - Blue Trim
Logitech Cordless G7 Gaming-Grade Laser Mouse
Logitech G15 Gaming-Grade Illuminated Keyboard
Logitech QuickCam Sphere Camera



Opinions please :)
 
Your asking us what to upgrade?

This makes me personally think that your upgrading becase you feel you have to

Is it slow or games lagging a bit or not?

If not why not put it into a instaant access ISA and when you do really want to upgrade and you know what with, then hey presto
 
Was about to agree with ste_bla, but when an opportunity comes knocking its better to just take it (you never know what could be round the corner after that money). But, what I suggest is you upgrade both. Sell off your current RAM & GF to offset the costs :D
 
ste_bla said:
Your asking us what to upgrade?

This makes me personally think that your upgrading becase you feel you have to

Is it slow or games lagging a bit or not?

If not why not put it into a instaant access ISA and when you do really want to upgrade and you know what with, then hey presto
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Yes, what would you spend £500 to improve my system. I don't have to upgrade, but You know you can always improve your system as technology gets better & better ;)

I was thinking that having 2GB of RAM would be the best place to start
 
If it were me, i would get the following :

A 7900GT for £200
2Gb RAM for £100

and either of the following

X2 3800+ for £190 or a 19" Acer Widescreen for £180

Eats up the £500, however you could sell the X850XT for about £90-£100 and the RAM for £30 - £40, so youd get at least £120 back.

If you went forthe CPU upgrade you most likley get £100+ for your current chip, making £230.

So looking at it that way you get new ram, cpu and gfx card all for £270
 
GX-047-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (3056) (GX-047-CO)
£239.95 £239.95
MY-107-CS Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3500LL TwinX (2x1GB) CAS2 (MY-107-CS)
£144.95 £144.95
Subtotal £384.90
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £8.00
VAT £68.76
Total £461.66


Then sell your current ram and gfx card and pocket the change
 
mattio1980 said:
get a duel core cpu opty 170 or 165
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stick with your single core until games which take advantage come out(instead of small unoticeable differences on a few games) am2 aint far off that will be the time to think about that.

7900gtx + XMS3500LL TwinX deffo.

485 delivered.
 
id wait for the new intel chips personally if your looking to spend 500 quid. get a low end conroe for about 200 ram for 150-200 and a mobo for 150 or so and youll have wicked pc :)
 
Hold off on the RAM upgrade & see if AM2 is worth upgrading to. If it is, you'll need DDR2 (And if overclocking DDR2-800)...

Deffo get the X1900XT though...
 
I too would advise going X1900XT and 2GB.

I went from an X850XT and 1GB to an X1900XT initially, but found I needed more RAM because I could run Doom 3 on Ultra quality etc with the new card.

I would advise either getting value RAM, or if you must have good stuff, the G.Skill ZX. It will hardly make any difference on an AMD64 system though.

Hold off on dual core for a while if you're a gamer.
 
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