BlueFalcon on 24 December 2012
| SubiyaCryolite said: Cool thread with great advice. You guys seem to be really knowledgeable with hardware. I just upgrade my own rig last week. Too late to change components but fire away, I'll use your advice for future consideration/tweaks. - 2GB Sapphire Radeon 7870HD GHZ Edition - 3.6GHz AMD Quad Core 4100FX Bulldozer CPU - 750GB HDD (250GB Seagate Barracuda+ 500GB Western Digital Caviar Blue) - OCZ 600MXSP 600 watt PSU - Kingston 8GB DDR3 1333MHz Dual Channel RAM - ASRock 960GM-GS3 FX AM3+ Mobo. |
Your next upgrade should be an SSD. It would help speed up general applications/snappiness of the system.
SSD vs HDD 7200rpm real comparison -Samsung 830 vs. 1TB WD 10EALX Blue
Windows 7 boot + loading 27 applications in about 1 min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ZrBM_EPC8
You could also get a $30-40 cooler and overclock that CPU. That would be a cheap way to get more performance out of your rig.
