$400 upgrade! Go!

[Jubei]

Ok, boys and girls, this is the system I want to upgrade:

AND X2 6000+
4GB DDR2 800 (4x1GB)
GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 nForce 570 SLI
GeForce 8800GT 512MB
600W SLI-ready power supply
2x500GB SATA HD in RAID 0
COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-WW Case
Stock CPU Cooler
XFi Extreme Something or Other sound card (I can't remember and that makes it hard to get the right drivers for this thing)
HP 940i DVD Burner
PCI TV tuner (that I no longer use)
19" Wide Screen LCD monitor
Vista Ultimate 64

I use this for TF2, playing around with my digital camera (Rebel XTi in RAW), watching movies and goofing off here.

So if I can spend $400-$500 tops on computer hardware to upgrade this thing, what should I get? What would you get? Anything I'm going to buy would be through Newegg (yay for kickbacks to eGO!) and links would be helpful.

 

[Stinky Wizzleteats]

do you have an overall goal for the machine, as in upgrade some now & then come back later or is there a specific gaming issue that you'd like to address with this upgrade?

 

[Icarus]

19" Wide Screen LCD monitor


I use this for TF2, playing around with my digital camera (Rebel XTi in RAW), watching movies and goofing off here.

If thats all your using your PC for, maybe bump up the monitor?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009154 maybe?

 

[Rogue Sniper]

Go for a new monitor and/or graphics card

 

[Evil-Jester]

i would say go for a new graphics card for 400$ you could get 2 and sli them or get one monster card like a GTX 260 like this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130428 or a 4870 like this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161247 and you would still have some extra cash for something else like a new mouse or keyboard or maybe if your lucky another computer part like a new prosesser like that one ----> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103228

 

[Raccoon]

New graphics card

 

[Volcom]

Monitor!

I have 2 of these!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009125

 

[b0bfath3r]

I would recommend upgrading your cpe and motherboard.
i have the amd phenom 9850 BE, and the msi k9a2 platinum moboard.

 

[Anthemjack]

Monitor!

I have 2 of these!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009125

Wow Volcom... How do you get your money : o!!!!

I go for the monitors, probably something that supports something higher than a 1280x800, I still got my old one from 3 years ago and its a 19'', go for the higher rez... Or a new Graphic card, get the 4870X2 .

 

[SixSicSix]

get two 22" monitors

 

[NixJedi]

I go for the monitors, probably something that supports something higher than a 1280x800.........Or a new Graphic card, get the 4870X2 .

get two 22" monitors

We have epic failed on staying within OPs price restrictions...

 

[koolaid]

processor and graphics and maybe monitor

 

[Havegooda {A|R}]

Monitor or PSU. Those are the things that stick with you the longest, in my opinion at least.

~Gooda~

 

[Dweeb]

MOnitor and Vid Card

 

[Anthemjack]

We have epic failed on staying within OPs price restrictions...

Yes we did Lol, I didn't notice how far I have gone.


Try getting this combo

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.146135

ITs 200$ .

 

[Jubei]

Note that the clock on the 6000+ runs at 3.0GHz. Applications that don't use more than one or two cores may run slower on a lower end quad core processor (because of the lower clock speed - this holds truer for AMD than for Intel chips, atm).

 

[GTghost]

i say just a new monitor

 

[Fragbait]

X2 for the new monitor

 

[AWPerator]

Phenom 9850!

You can also get another 8800GT and put it in SLI.

 

[WitchPuncher]

SLI? lol jk mmm SLI if i only could do that with my mobo it is only crossfire ready