It's soon to be pay day and I'll have some money set aside (£100 or so) for an upgrade. I'm looking for a new hard drive having had some issues with my F1 lately and then I'll have £50 or £60 left over. Suggestions?
I'd go for a 1TB spinpoint F3 and another 2gb of memory looking at your rig. Or save the money and get a 460 next payday!
What OS are you running? If it's Vista in particular, I'd suggest the extra couple of gigs of memory. But otherwise, what I'd say that what Zinfandel says is bang on
How about an SSD? There are cheap one's around: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/233209 £92 for a sandforce drive, then just get another 1tb or 500gb standard as there cheap at present: Scan have some good deals: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/ss1T...3-SATA-3Gb-s-7200rpm-32MB-Cache-89-ms-NCQ-OEM
Hmm, okay I have a lot to think about. Crucial C300 64GB SSD I think to start with, that will be used as a boot drive and for all my uni work and documents, which will free up space on my hard drives. Then I'll follow that up with and extra 2GB of RAM (or should I buy a 2x2GB set and sell my current 1x2GB) Then the 460 in the near year. I think that is a plan
For best stability go for matched RAM. If you can't get identical RAM to what you have (another 2 x 1GB), sell what you have and get 2 x 2GB. Just my tuppence worth...
Ram would be the best upgrade imo sell your 2x1GB and buy matched pair 2x2GB ram is very cheap at the moment
imersa is selling 8GB of good DDR2 (4x 2GB), you might be able to get him to split: http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=193311. Failing that, there are others in the marketplace selling DDR2, not sure of the sizes though, have a browse.
I need a few more posts before I can get on the marketplace. 8GB might be good, I have a lot of CAD and coding to do this year at uni so my PC could spend a lot of time rendering and compiling.