My current and installed items : OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Power Supply Unit: COUGAR COUGAR-GX1050 1050W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Yes, flexible cable management Active PFC Power Supply Haswell ready HDD: Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 (465 GB) <-Only has windows updates and also same with drivers for anything. External HDD: WD My Book 1112 (930 GB) <- I run my games off of this since it has more room. CPU: CPU Type QuadCore Intel Core i7-950, 3200 MHz (24 x 133) Motherboard: Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R v1.6 (2 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x4, 2 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR3 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394) Mobo Chipset: Motherboard Chipset Intel Tylersburg X58, Intel Nehalem Memory: DIMM1: Corsair Vengeance CMZ12GX3M3A1600C9 4 GB DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM (9-9-9-24 @ 666 MHz) (8-8-8-22 @ 592 MHz) (7-7-7-19 @ 518 MHz) (6-6-6-16 @ 444 MHz) X3 Video card: EVGA e-GeForce GTX 780 Ti Monitor: Dell E2311H (Digital) I have roughly 400$ to spend. My final thoughts on my parts is that I was initially gonna go for two Titans and put them in SLI but then I started thinking that my HDD was a issue witrh startup speed and multitasking speed. I lost a SSD before but when I had it it was quick and snappy. Question is now..do I get more game appeal with a new monitor since I have a good video card? Or should I upgrade my CPU and get a new SSD? You can input your choices for the amount of money I have. Thank you.
Overclock your CPU and buy a SSD and you're fine. Maybe upgrade to 7-16GB Memory. Your graphic card is fine and I think you get most for your money if you buy an SSD. It's the speed upgrade you will notice directly no matter if you run games or apps.
That sounds like a effective way of upgrading for cheaper. OCing hasn't been my specialty since I fried my PSU last time thus making me want to upgrade now. Step one ..learn to OC properly. If not then take it to a PC shop and have them do it. Which isn't sense-able if I can figure it out myself. I have two parts though that will take me far beyound what you recommended BotOperator. It will allow more exspanion for newer and faster parts. Maybe I am wrong? See here! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131876 MOBO http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113284 CPU
