Hey guys.
This is my current home-pc spec, and im thinking of upgrading it for the new 2011 games.
Now last time i upgrades my PC it was fairly old and had a 7800GTX in it, so i built everythingt from sratch, however this time i have slightly better gear so need some advice.
CPU: Q5500
GPU's: 2x 280GTX
Mobo: Asus Striker II
RAM: 4GB
PSU: 1500W Thermltake PSU (my 1200 gave up on me at one point so i thought the 1500 would last me muhahaha)
HD: 1x 300GB 1x 1TB
Case: Thermaltake SwordM
Now what im deciding is whether to upgrade or replace the whole build.
Please suggest.
I was personally thinkining of upgrading to an i7 (or i9 - when are they out??)
Maybe upgrade the mobo to an Asus Striker III as well, and add 4 more gigs of ram.
Are the HD's good? Or should i add a SSD?
What about the GPU's? Upgrade to 400 series - or wait for new series? (when is it out??)
thanks.


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), I wouldn't bother upgrading anything in your actual rig. I'd buy a really good after market cooler, and clock the Q6600 up - aim for the 3.6GHz mark*. That should do you for at least another couple of years, by which point both Bulldozer and Sandy Bridge will be mature technology and AMD will have pushed out another couple of generations of graphics cards, so when you do upgrade you'll actually get a really noticable difference in performance, not just 2% in a few games (2 GTX280s is still competitive against most modern cards, allowing for the occasional vagueries of SLI...).

