• I have $300, any ideas?
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I've found myself with 300 AUD (roughly the same in USD, a little less) to spend. I have no idea what to spend it on though. I could buy an SSD drive and a CPU cooler. CPU is running a bit hot on stock cooling so it wouldn't be a bad buy. I'm not looking at anything in particular yet. I could also spend it on a new case as I'm tiring of the 900 and it's not very easy to clean it out and replace parts. I have the old edition without dust filters too. I'm looking at the HAF X but it doesn't match my colour scheme (i can get over it though haha) I've also considered buying a singular graphics card but I'm perfectly happy with my current setup's performance anyway. It handles all games with above average framerates. My current specs are: [b]Case[/b] - Antec 900 [b]CPU[/b] - Core i5 2500K [b]Mobo[/b] - MSI P67A-GD55 (getting recalled lol) [b]RAM[/b] - Corsair 4GB 1600Mhz [b]GFX[/b] - 2x9800GT 512MB SC [b]PSU[/b] - Corsair 850W [b]HDD[/b] - x 500GB/320GB HDDs tl;dr having trouble deciding what I should spend $300 AUD on. Recommend me some parts?
If you have to spend the money now I would suggest a HDD/SSD otherwise I advise you save up some more and upgrade the GPU, to at least a GTX 570/equivalent. [editline]2nd February 2011[/editline] Actually get a heatsink, HAF 922 (or whatever else you want) and a SSD that'll probably come to around ~300
[QUOTE=Jaehead;27825910]If you have to spend the money now I would suggest a HDD/SSD otherwise I advise you save up some more and upgrade the GPU, to at least a GTX 570/equivalent. [editline]2nd February 2011[/editline] Actually get a heatsink, HAF 922 (or whatever else you want) and a SSD that'll probably come to around ~300[/QUOTE] Well in AUD the HAF X is 250 and I want a definite improvement over my Antec 900. Also a good CPU cooler is around 70-100 AUD. I won't have enough money for a new case, SSD and CPU cooler all together.
how much is a 212+ over there? That's a nice budget heatsink
[QUOTE=Jaehead;27826323]how much is a 212+ over there? That's a nice budget heatsink[/QUOTE] The AUD-USD conversion ratio is pretty much 1 to 1. So it's 30 bucks over here.
Get that, some thermal paste, and an SSD/the case you want
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13038989/New.png[/img] I built this with 300 USD. That's roughly 300 AUD, right?
Too bad this is an upgrade thread.
[QUOTE=Johnbooth;27828025][img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13038989/New.png[/img_thumb] I built this with 300 USD. That's roughly 300 AUD, right?[/QUOTE] Thankyou but I'm not looking for a whole system, rather some parts to upgrade my current one. Right now I am looking at: Coolermaster HAF X - $234 Coolermaster 212+ - $31 24 Pin ATX Extension Cable - $11 Blue 30cm Cathodes - $19 [because I'm a 16 year old faggot] Total: $295 which is pretty fucking perfect.
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