Out of curiousity if you had my rig, what would you upgrade first and when would you upgrade it?
current specs:
Processor: AMD Phenom 9950BE @ 3.0ghz
Motherboard: GA-MA785G-UD3H (AM3 Support)
Memory: Kingston 4gigs of Ram. (2gbx2gb)
GPU: NVIDIA; MSI 9800GTX+ @ 512mb Custom Edition by MSI
PSU: Antec CP-850W
Case: Antec Twelve Hundred
HSF: Artic Cooling Freezer Extreme REV 1
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500gb
PCI: TP-LINK WN951N Wireless 'N' Adapter
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Edition (I wonder where i got this )
So what needs upgrading first to your personal opinion?
Cheers, Matt
Whats next for an Upgrade?
Re: Whats next for an Upgrade?
First thing I would upgrade is the processor. The Phenom II's are kicking chips. Then I would up the gfx card, but thats me
Re: Whats next for an Upgrade?
Yeah, im not upgrading for like another year, but i was thinking will that Socket on the motherboard be outdated by then?
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Re: Whats next for an Upgrade?
I would upgrade the processor,Phenom II x4...945,955 or the 965......Then the video card...5xxx series would be nice..5750,5770...Thats what I would do....
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Case:Cooler Master HAF 922
Mobo: Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H
Cpu: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T [email protected]
Ram: G. Skill Rip Jaws-- 4gigs DDR3 1600MHz
Gpu: XFX 5870@900/1300
Psu: Silverstone 850w 80+Silver--Modular
Cooler--- Noctua NH-U12P SE2 120mm SSO CPU Cooler
Hdd----2-Samsung Spinpoint F1 320gb IN RAID0
LightScribe------dvd/cd rom player
Lamptron Fan Controller
Mobo: Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H
Cpu: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T [email protected]
Ram: G. Skill Rip Jaws-- 4gigs DDR3 1600MHz
Gpu: XFX 5870@900/1300
Psu: Silverstone 850w 80+Silver--Modular
Cooler--- Noctua NH-U12P SE2 120mm SSO CPU Cooler
Hdd----2-Samsung Spinpoint F1 320gb IN RAID0
LightScribe------dvd/cd rom player
Lamptron Fan Controller
Re: Whats next for an Upgrade?
The biggest performance upgrade I've noticed was going from HDD to SSD. Made a world of difference for day to day computing as well as boot / recovery times.