Your best/cheapest upgrade?

[frazered]

ok small update just sold my BFG 8800 GTS OC for £75 on the bay - not a bad result at all

made a nice dent in my upgrade cost to a q6600 setup and still got mobo, ram and s939 4600 to sell

[this_is_gav]

Celeron 300A.

Don't really need to add much more really. Those who know, know....

[e36Adz]

Just did it again, sold my 8800GTX OC on ebay for, £120 & £10 p&p, after fees and everything and taking into account how much it cost me to post the card out, I got £115 for it.

Purchased a GTX 260 for £145 delivered, which should be arriving on monday

[shadowmaster]

Just did it again, sold my 8800GTX OC on ebay for, £120 & £10 p&p, after fees and everything and taking into account how much it cost me to post the card out, I got £115 for it.

Genius

The 8800gtx is worth no more then £75 max.

[Pob255]

A couple of years back

Athlon xp 2400+
epox (nforce2?) motherboard
1.5gb ddr
6800le agp
ide hd and dvd rom

went to a
ASRock 4coredual-VSTA motherboard =£30
pentium D (925) 3.0ghz = £65
the rest unchanged
total £95
Instant performance boost and let me slowly upgrade the rest of my pc bit by bit over the next year and a half. one of the best buys I ever made and later sold both for £45

Other things that cames close.
replaceing my 19"CRT with a 17"lcd, slightly smaller screen, but the same res and a good deal less weight and desk space.
replaceing the 6800le 128mb agp with a 7900gs 256mb overclocked for £75
replaceing the 7900gs with a 9800gtx for £90 ok not a major boost, went from card struggling slightly sometimes to card never breaking a sweat at 1280x1024 but was ready for . . .
replaceing 17" lcd with 22" widescreen lcd for £100, minus an additional £41 which I've sold the 17" for so £60

[strike-down]

gah that thanks was not meant to be clicked . . got an odd occasional fault with my touchpad. Has its own mind sometimes

[McPhee]

Today i bought an ATi 3870 for £40. I have an x1950 XTX to sell. I'm expecting to pretty much break even