Hello, I am looking to up grade my not-so-old desktop computer I built in September of 07. It is made up of the following parts: Intel E6300 CPU (at 2.5GHz) with Zalman 9500 CPU cooler Asus P5K - V motherboard Corsair 2 x 1GB 667Mhz 4-4-4-12 RAM XFX 8600GT XXX Edition Seagate 320 GB Hard Drive (SATA) WD 320GB Hard Drive (IDE) LG Super Multi DVD Drive with Light scribe Antec Earth watts 430 Watt PSU Windows XP Professional Edition SP2 I would probably be getting the parts from Canada Computers and I have about $230 to spend after Taxes (13% in Canada. I am thinking the best thing to upgrade would be the CPU or the RAM (there soooo cheap now)... what is your opinion?
RAM is always a good upgrade. Thats the first thing I would do. I have 4 gigs of Corsair XMS Pro @ 4-4-4-12-t2 in SLI and it works awesome!
Er no rayals, you can't SLI memory. SLI is for video cards! It may be SLI branded OCZ memory but that doesn't actually mean anything, it just adds a fancy colour scheme really. For yur PC mike it really depends on the usage. Your CPU isn't exactly slow and you've got a reasonable amount of memory. If you play games, I'd upgrade the graphics card first as that's the weakest link in the PC (you probably ought to upgrade the PSU as well if you do that). $230 after tax probably isn't going to get you a CPU upgrade that'll be worthwhile, as with a 13% tax rate you're looking at $250+ for an E6750. E6850s or Q6600s are even more.
