I'm thinking about trying to get back into some pc gaming and I'm hoping that rather than dropping £800+ on a completely new set up that I can breathe some life in to my ageing Q6600 setup. It would also be nice to have overall smoother performance for web/video/photoshop etc. My current setup is as follows:
Coolermaster Elite 330 Black / silver midi tower case micro ATX NO PSU (CASCOORC330)
Asus motherboard P5N-D nForce 750i SLI LGA775 2 x PCIe x16 DDR2 ATX (MOTASUP5ND)
XpertVision GeForce 9600 GT 512MB Sonic DDR3, PCI-E
Seagate 250GB Barracuda SATA II 300 7200rpm 16MB cache
OCZ 4GB Kit (2x2048) Vista Performance Gold DDR2 PC2-6400 Dual Channel Memory
OCZ 700GXS Sli -UK nVidia Sli Ready 700W Power Whisper Technology Active PFC
Intel CPU Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 95W Energy Efficient 2.4GHz SLACR G0 Stepping
I'm thinking of spending around £100 on a GPU - something like a 650Ti & also an SSD as I'm thinking that the reason for my system taking forever too boot up and showing slowish overall performance is hard drive related.
My mobo is SLI so I was thinking that one of the pci bays could be used for the ssd? My main concern is that any modern GPU will be bottlenecked by my long-in-the-tooth CPU...
As I've got pretty limited knowledge in pc tech I was hoping you guys could give me some pointers as to whether this is the right approach and if all of the parts would be compatible.
Any advice appreciated
Coolermaster Elite 330 Black / silver midi tower case micro ATX NO PSU (CASCOORC330)
Asus motherboard P5N-D nForce 750i SLI LGA775 2 x PCIe x16 DDR2 ATX (MOTASUP5ND)
XpertVision GeForce 9600 GT 512MB Sonic DDR3, PCI-E
Seagate 250GB Barracuda SATA II 300 7200rpm 16MB cache
OCZ 4GB Kit (2x2048) Vista Performance Gold DDR2 PC2-6400 Dual Channel Memory
OCZ 700GXS Sli -UK nVidia Sli Ready 700W Power Whisper Technology Active PFC
Intel CPU Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 95W Energy Efficient 2.4GHz SLACR G0 Stepping
I'm thinking of spending around £100 on a GPU - something like a 650Ti & also an SSD as I'm thinking that the reason for my system taking forever too boot up and showing slowish overall performance is hard drive related.
My mobo is SLI so I was thinking that one of the pci bays could be used for the ssd? My main concern is that any modern GPU will be bottlenecked by my long-in-the-tooth CPU...
As I've got pretty limited knowledge in pc tech I was hoping you guys could give me some pointers as to whether this is the right approach and if all of the parts would be compatible.
Any advice appreciated