Upgrade Advice *£60 budget*

[kurosagi01]

The only obvious place to look in your current rig is the hard drives really, but £60 isn't going to buy you any huge performance improvements (unless you're using that crummy old IDE drive as an OS drive, that is ).

If I was you I'd get that £60 in the bank where it's safe. Oh.... hang on a minute...

(no, seriously. Save your £60 towards more worthwhile upgrades in the future )

the old IDE Hard drive is just for small storage lol.
I am using a 160GB HD as my OS and a 250GB HD is storing all my media files

[matty-hodgson]

i am 17 years old and i don't have a job and i don't get money to go sixth form/college(EMA)

Get a job and get EMA then .
I'm 17 and I have a job and get EMA.

thought about getting a decent keyboard and mouse?

[kurosagi01]

Get a job and get EMA then .
I'm 17 and I have a job and get EMA.

thought about getting a decent keyboard and mouse?

I can't get EMA because either my parents earn more than 30k a year or my parents are just stingy and won't let me apply for stupid reasons and i do help my parents at times at work but all the money is going towards my driving lesson.

I did think about a keyboard but like i said what is the point in spending a lot of money on a keyboard? i really don't see any reasons.

Like i said in previous post i got myself a Steelseries Kinzu mouse so my mouse is okay.

[WaKKo-]

A good keyboard can make all the difference as you can press more than 2 buttons at once. Depends on how much you game etc. If your an avid gamer perhaps a decent mouse mat like an Everglide Titan. Or a decent headset so you can hear more clearly, and get less abuse of your parents late in the evening. Other than that use teh £60 towards you theory/practical test or more lessons.

[Pob255]

How about windows 7?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The OP has a perfectly decent computer and TBH even Vista runs perfectly fine when you turn off some of the crap it has.

I would save the money towards a new system at some point in the future.

[Teamsreth]

I would save the money towards a new system at some point in the future.

That would be my choice too.

[nimbu]

Kinda have to agree, cant see anything that a £60 upgrade would improve. save the cash for a bigger upgrade or when you pass that driving test some go faster strips / furry dice for the car!

[circuitmonkey]

I can understand why the OP wants to spend the money, I'm sure everyone at some point just wanted something that they couldn't really justify.

So as an alternative suggestion, have a look over at http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products
I could easily spend £60 over there making a computer quieter and more user friendly.

Just a thought

[Fortune117]

Imho just save the money, use it for petrol ^_^

[kurosagi01]

lol i was thinking of that too but i was wondering if i should get the CM 690 dominator or wait because i really like the case design its simplicity making it really tempting.

[Fortune117]

As a student you're going to need to be able to tell the difference between need and want.

eg. You NEED petrol for your car, You want a new computer case.

You could always save it for a time when things go tits up. That always helps.

[kurosagi01]

Well I am okay right now for petrol that is because my parents will give me money for parents,and it be coming out of my working money after driving lesson money.