I've got $250 burning a hole in my pocket and was trying to figure out what to upgrade in my PC. My specs are in my sig. I got vista for Christmas and am just waiting for the 64 bit DVD to be delivered, so I can upgrade basically anything. What should I upgrade, or should I just wait for the new Penryns to come out? Thanks!
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Time for an upgrade
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I've got a good monitor and a good mouse, so no need to upgrade those yet. What about upgrading to the new 8800gts? I'm pretty sure that I could pull it off. But would it be worth it?There isn't really anything I would upgrade because it just isn't worth it.
New monitor maybe? Mouse?
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It's too small of a jump. Have you got a good sound setup? Drop a few bones on some pro media 2.1s or some hd 555 cans.
Or, you can just buy a bunch of video games.
Or, you can just buy a bunch of video games.
I got the Bose Companion 3 series, so i'm good to go. I think my DVD rom drive is goin' out, so I'm gonna get a new one. Then I think that i'll save the rest of my money and just get a penryn quadcore and a new mobo when they come out. Thanks anyways guys!
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Hold on a second, I just noticed your hard drive. Drop the cash on a raptor. Your cpu is already blazing fast. Last generation's last generation's last generation dual core cpus (939 socket AMD dual core) are still hard pressed to be bottlenecked.
With a quad core, you can cut off a few milliseconds in super pi, but the raptor's load times are actually tangible. At first you probably won't notice it (even though windows usually boots in half the time), but a 7200 rpm drive will feel sluggish if you were to go back.
With a quad core, you can cut off a few milliseconds in super pi, but the raptor's load times are actually tangible. At first you probably won't notice it (even though windows usually boots in half the time), but a 7200 rpm drive will feel sluggish if you were to go back.
About the only thing worth doing would be to get another video card for SLI, if your motherboard supports it and your monitor is large enough to warrant it. Since you're getting Vista 64-bit, you could also add more RAM. I wonder if anyone has done a comparison between 4GB and 8GB RAM, and what kind of improvement there would be.