£100 would be better spent on...

[scaryjim]

Of course, you could always spend it on watching premiership football instead

[redddraggon]

I don't know much about image processing and it's memory requirements, but I've not used much more than 4GB of my 6GB.

The SSD would be handy if you do a lot of booting of OSes or you can fit all your programs on it. However in general running of the system I don't notice that much improvement over my 2TB drive, except when I've got games on it that have a lot of "loading screens".

[Butuz]

SSD every time as long as its a good ~250/250mb/s r/w jobby.

Butuz

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

IIRC,the next generation of SSDs are being released at the end of the year, Supposedly they are using either 25NM,28NM or 30NM production processes:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/19000...8nm_chips.html

[kalniel]

Of course, you could always spend it on watching premiership football instead

Why would I do that? My championship team have scored 8 goals in their last two matches, far more entertaining

The 2x4gb is a nice compromise, might have to see what happens with prices - surely high density DRAM is due for a price cut, and SSDs are coming good as well

[ChaosSystem]

I'd go for SSD, remember that you need a 64bit OS to access +4GB of RAM properly.

[marktime]

If you still haven't parted with your money Scan have got the 60 GB Vertex 2E on this weekend for under £100, very good price, dropped around £35 in the 6 weeks since I bought one.

[kalniel]

If you still haven't parted with your money Scan have got the 60 GB Vertex 2E on this weekend for under £100, very good price, dropped around £35 in the 6 weeks since I bought one.

Thanks yes I saw that. Very tempting. Now I've just got to see if I've won that Ares card or the money might have to go towards a case and PSU upgrade