What Shoul I Upgrade Next?

[chavo12345]

I am currently looking to upgrade my pc, but don't know what to upgrade.
I built it as a budget gaming pc. Any suggestions would be appreciated. 😀

Here are my specs:

-Motherboard: P5GC-MX/1333 ( More Info here http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3584478 )

-CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 Running @2.33GHz

-Memory: 2gb DDR2 5300

-Video Card: PNY 1GB 256-Bit 9800GT XL8 Edition

-OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit

Thank You 😀

 

[greenfield]

Greeting: Here is a good system to consider

CPU
i7 920 @4.0GHz

Motherboard
GIGABYTE EX58-UD5


Memory
G.SKILL 6GB DDR3 1333

Graphics Card
XFX Radeon HD 5850 or 5870


Case:
Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Retail

HDD:
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

PSU Corsair TX950

CPU cooling:

Mega Shadow CPU cooler from Prolima

OS
Windows 7 64bit

Monitor
(2) Dell 24" 2407WFP Widescreen

Best of luck
later,G

 

[chavo12345]

Unforunately, I don't have enough funds to purchase all new parts right now
I only have enough to upgrade some stuff on my exsisting machine.
Thanks for the suggestion anyway

 

[greenfield]

Unforunately, I don't have enough funds to purchase all new parts right now
I only have enough to upgrade some stuff on my exsisting machine.
Thanks for the suggestion anyway

Hi:I know You're on a low budget

what PSU do you have ,you never mentioned !!!


what about the following :

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Retail


1x Winner of Customer Choice Award - Processors - Desktops

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=Intel+Core+2+Duo+E8400&x=13&y=34




Also what about Another 2Gig of Ram !!!

G.SKILL 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Desktop Memory Model F2-5300CL4S-2GBPQ - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231119&cm_re=ddr2_667_2gb-_-20-231-119-_-Product



XFX HD-577A-ZNFC Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150447&cm_re=xfx_5770-_-14-150-447-_-Product


Or:

XFX HD-585A-ZNBC Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) 1GB Black Edition 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported ... - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=XFX+5850+&x=23&y=33





Best of Luck...
later,G

 

[chavo12345]

Oh, sorry.

I have a Cooler Master GX Series 650W Power Supply

Thanks for looking into this