Question about upgrade...options

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Chappie

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Hi all,

Next month I'll be building a new system with a few old parts from my current P4 system thrown in...ie. the two optical drives, the floppy, and my sound card. everything else will be new.

My budget is pretty tight and I have everything pretty much picked out..but if I buy a 7800gt video card I won't have enough left over for a new 80 gig hard drive and I'll have to use my existing Maxtor 5400 rpm hard drive. The drive is running fine, but should I go ahead and sacrifice the 7800gt for something a little less expensive and get a new hard drive??? Maybe a 6800gs???

I still have about a month to wait...just anxious I guess!! LOL ;)

thanks,

Chappie
 
Oh crap,

I just realized this is the wrong sub-forum!! Sorry about that. Can it be moved??

thanks,

Chappie
 
No problem, thanks for noticing - I'll move this to General Hardware.
 
If the computer is mostly used for gaming, and your current HD is working correctly.....get the best videocard you can afford. It will make the largest difference in your gaming experiance, provided the rest of your setup isnt ancient.
 
also, if you keep an eye on the hotdeals forum and slickdeals/etc, there are always good hard drive prices out there. I think I saw a 160gb for $20 AR the other day...so it can be cheap
 
Hey guys,

thanks for the info......that sounds reasonable. I'm upgrading for gaming so that makes perfect sense.

thanks again,

Chappie
 
You know if you check out the FS/T forum in here you can probably find a used 80GB HDD still under warranty cheaper than you could get new. Maybe then you could have both.
 
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