What should I upgrade...

[The Wise Monkey]

I've allowed myself a bit of cash to upgrade my PC, but I'm not sure which parts to upgrade! Here is my setup at the moment:

AMD 4200+ X2 Socket AM2
1GB Crucial Ballistix RAM PC25300
XXX Geforce 7600GT 256MB
Antec 480W PSU
ASUS M32N-SLI Deluxe

Oh, and my dream case - Thermaltake Tsunami. :D

My budget is about £250 - what do you recommend?

[Jamie Nixx]

For £250 you could easily get a new CPU, GPU and Motherboard.

Price cuts will put the E6400 at well under £100

Decent motherboard will set you back around £70

And if you can stretch you can get a 7900GS for around £100

Stick the other parts on ebay and make yourself some money :D

[The Wise Monkey]

I was thinking about that, although I might decide to get some better memory instead. My GPU works well for what I use it for, and I think that I need the memory for Virtualisation and things like that.

I also need more processing power, but I'm going to wait for a bit longer for that - price cuts for intel are a-coming. :)

[Jamie Nixx]

Damn right those price cuts are coming. I can see a Quad core with ma name on it :D

[The Wise Monkey]

I tried to tell my employers about these price cuts, but they got itchy feet so ordered a Q6600 a few days ago... idiots. XD

[Jamie Nixx]

What a bunch of donuts. That CPU is having a really big price cut.

Oh well. You can rub it in when that CPU is half the price :D

[The Wise Monkey]

It was all I could do to persuade them not to bother with the Quad Core Xeons - just a rebadged version of the Q6600 for 100 pounds more!

[Jamie Nixx]

Oh well its their loss. Maybe in the future when they realise just how much intel slashed their pices they will listen to you :D

Any ideas what your going to be upgrading yet ?

[The Wise Monkey]

Probably RAM for the moment and mobo/CPU when I have some more money/inclination. :)

I run Ubuntu in a virtual environment, and having that and XP on 1GB of RAM is not good enough tbh.

[Jamie Nixx]

Yeah i here you. I have 2 gigs in my rig and even that isn't enough and i am only running XP (stalker is another matter though:D ). Ordering another 2 gigs for myself today. Then this baby will be rocking :p

[The Wise Monkey]

Yeah, the only game I play is CS:S, and that runs really well.

Just bought myself 2GB of Corsair Dominator PC2-8500, so a big chunk of my allowance has gone. :)

What's really annoying is the overclockers.co.uk were doing a deal last week, and I dithered so much that I missed it - coulda saved myself £25... :(

[Jamie Nixx]

:eek: Decent mate, i like overclockers but they tend to be expensive so i use scan, aria or ebuyer.

Give us a lil review when you get it lol :D

[The Wise Monkey]

Meh, decided to spend a little more and upgrade processor and mobo as well. :D

Going for an e6750, gigabyte mobo to support 1333 fsb and pc2-8500 memory, and the memory I said before.