by danpaul88 » January 25th, 2008, 4:58 pm
Upgrading the video card would be a good way to improve performance in newer games, I am planning a similar upgrade sometime from my 7600gt to something in the 8x series, either an 8600 or an 8800 if they come down in price when the 9 series come out.
As for 2 500gb hard drives... maybe a little overkill? I have 480gb between two hard drives at the moment (320gb sata and 160gb IDE) and I have plenty of space left over even with my entire mp3 collection and music video collection on them, plus quite a few gb of windows backups, so I think you might be overestimating your requirements.
My advice would be to get a single 500gb drive and if you somehow manage to get to the point where you need more storage, buy another drive at that point, because chances are larger drivers will have become cheaper again and you might be able to add a 1tb drive for about the same price as you might pay now for a 500gb drive.
Upgrading the video card would be a good way to improve performance in newer games, I am planning a similar upgrade sometime from my 7600gt to something in the 8x series, either an 8600 or an 8800 if they come down in price when the 9 series come out.
As for 2 500gb hard drives... maybe a little overkill? I have 480gb between two hard drives at the moment (320gb sata and 160gb IDE) and I have plenty of space left over even with my entire mp3 collection and music video collection on them, plus quite a few gb of windows backups, so I think you might be overestimating your requirements.
My advice would be to get a single 500gb drive and if you somehow manage to get to the point where you need more storage, buy another drive at that point, because chances are larger drivers will have become cheaper again and you might be able to add a 1tb drive for about the same price as you might pay now for a 500gb drive.