I tried to open a huge (1.2GB) drawing in Adobe Illustrator the other day and my PC told me it never had enough RAM. I haven't upgraded for a few years now, so it may be about time. My current spec is as follows:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.3GHz
Gigabyte 965P-DS3P
6GB DDR2 RAM
Radeon HD5870
Corsair HX620W
Coolermaster ATCS 840
I originally thought of just buying a couple of 4GB sticks of RAM and whacking that in, but it seems DDR2 isn't cheap.
All I need really is a mobo, cpu and ram. My graphics card is fine for what I play and I could always upgrade that later if need be. I've got the OS, optical drive, psu, case. I might consider an SSD but I'd only use that as the boot drive so I wouldn't need a massive one.
My budget would be around the £400 mark. I want a major performance upgrade that I notice, not a negligible one. I do a lot of stuff in AI and Photoshop and some gaming. I've read good things about the i5 2500k if it can happily run at >4GHz on the stock cooler, and I'd buy a better cooler anyway and aim for around 4.5GHz.
All help will be greatly appreciated!
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.3GHz
Gigabyte 965P-DS3P
6GB DDR2 RAM
Radeon HD5870
Corsair HX620W
Coolermaster ATCS 840
I originally thought of just buying a couple of 4GB sticks of RAM and whacking that in, but it seems DDR2 isn't cheap.
All I need really is a mobo, cpu and ram. My graphics card is fine for what I play and I could always upgrade that later if need be. I've got the OS, optical drive, psu, case. I might consider an SSD but I'd only use that as the boot drive so I wouldn't need a massive one.
My budget would be around the £400 mark. I want a major performance upgrade that I notice, not a negligible one. I do a lot of stuff in AI and Photoshop and some gaming. I've read good things about the i5 2500k if it can happily run at >4GHz on the stock cooler, and I'd buy a better cooler anyway and aim for around 4.5GHz.
All help will be greatly appreciated!