which upgrade first?

[Alundran]

Right im wondering which to upgrade first my GPU or move to SSD

I will be doing both eventually just wonding which to do and what to get?

XFX HD5770 (current GPU)
160gb Hitachi "HDT721016SLA380" (Current HDD)

Main reason is had these for a few years now and i think im overdue Plus i wanna keep up with and show off to my LAN Party Group

Your suggestions are appreciated

[absic]

I'd say get an SSD first, you'll see an immediate improvement to the way the OS loads and runs.

[Aussie Allan]

 To  tell the truth the vid card is not too shabby.....If you can stretch that far, why don't you keep both , check your board in the compatibility list at OCZ and get a PCI-E "RevoDrive x2 100gb for your boot drive...........out of the box I have 600+ MB/S write and 800MB/S read.....Just a thought!

 Aussie Allan

[Dark Mantis]

Agreed! Get the SSD or Revodrive first. You will see far more benefit from that than a GPU upgrade as your graphics card is ok even if it isn't top end.

[Alundran]

right so an SSD is the unanimous decision.

Windows loading time isnt an issue for me seens as the second i push the on button i wander downstairs and make a brew.

so it will help better when gaming and loading my DJ and music editing software? thats the main thing for me really

[Dark Mantis]

Just make sure that you set it up properly and move your swapfile onto the other drive etc.

[Alundran]

And now Mr Mantis is speaking russian

im that well versed in procedures

so im afraid your gonna have to talk to me in "idiot" ha ha

also would a vertex 3 be feasable i think the revo x2 is just a touch out of the price range 

[Badbonji]

I think he means to move the pagefile to the mechanical drive, as this will consume read/writes and SSDs are only so durable. Although I have heard from other users their pagefile doesn't eat too many cycles up, but this will vary on system usage and amount of RAM (and you have 12GB so you may even be able to turn it off!)

Vertex 3 is the next best option after pci-e based storage! I believe it should be very easy to install, Windows 7 should allign the partition correctly and you will be running in no time! Vertex 3 is the fastest Sata SSD on the market currently (for the consumer at least), the majority of applications will open almost instantly and boot times will probably be cut by at least half!

EDIT: That motherboard doesn't have SATA 3 ports right? (rev 1.0) That means it will bottleneck the Vertex 3 by quite a bit, but should still be night and day versus your old drive!

[Aussie Allan]

And now Mr Mantis is speaking russian

im that well versed in procedures

so im afraid your gonna have to talk to me in "idiot" ha ha

also would a vertex 3 be feasable i think the revo x2 is just a touch out of the price range 

 Just in case!.....I'm seeing a lot of £400 to even £460 out there for RevoDrives x2........SC_N .co._k   have them in stock for £318 inc...I know ...I brought one!!!

 Aussie Allan

[Dark Mantis]

And now Mr Mantis is speaking russian

im that well versed in procedures

so im afraid your gonna have to talk to me in "idiot" ha ha

also would a vertex 3 be feasable i think the revo x2 is just a touch out of the price range 

Nazdrave!

Yes as Badbonji sadi I was talking about your pagefile/swapfile for Windows howver if you have over 6GB of memory then you don't need to run one at all and can disable it. Control panel/System/Advanced Syatem Settings/Performance-Settings button/Advanced/Virtual Memory/Change button

@Allan
That is a good price for a Revodrive X2 from Scan.

[Alundran]

I think he means to move the pagefile to the mechanical drive, as this will consume read/writes and SSDs are only so durable. Although I have heard from other users their pagefile doesn't eat too many cycles up, but this will vary on system usage and amount of RAM (and you have 12GB so you may even be able to turn it off!)

Vertex 3 is the next best option after pci-e based storage! I believe it should be very easy to install, Windows 7 should allign the partition correctly and you will be running in no time! Vertex 3 is the fastest Sata SSD on the market currently (for the consumer at least), the majority of applications will open almost instantly and boot times will probably be cut by at least half!

EDIT: That motherboard doesn't have SATA 3 ports right? (rev 1.0) That means it will bottleneck the Vertex 3 by quite a bit, but should still be night and day versus your old drive!

i thought the rev 1 did have sata 3?? or am i wrong as usual
in otherwords sata 6Gbs isnt sata 3?

so id be better gettin a sata 2 SSD?

im sorry for sounding so dense but its been a long day and brain has started to go to mush ha ha

[Aussie Allan]

 Well this could be a world's first but unless Gigabyte released 2 versions of version 1 Mobo GA-X58A-UD7 (Rev 1) it in fact does have SATA3 (6GBS)

 Holy hell Batman.....DM is Human!


 Aussie Allan

[Dark Mantis]

I can verify that I am indeed human, although there are times when I wish I weren't!   However I think you misunderstood  what I said. I didn't agree with Badbonji that the motherboard has no SATA3 ( I am using the same mobo as we speak ) just about the swapfile/pagefile.

The Vertex3 is a very nice and fast drive that you could use but even though you have SATA3 it is on the Marvell 9128 chip controller and it fails to work properly in SATA3 speeds. It actually performs slightly slower than you Intel ICH10R Southbridge controller chip which is SATA2.

[Aussie Allan]

I can verify that I am indeed human, although there are times when I wish I weren't!   However I think you misunderstood  what I said. I didn't agree with Badbonji that the motherboard has no SATA3 ( I am using the same mobo as we speak ) just about the swapfile/pagefile.

The Vertex3 is a very nice and fast drive that you could use but even though you have SATA3 it is on the Marvell 9128 chip controller and it fails to work properly in SATA3 speeds. It actually performs slightly slower than you Intel ICH10R Southbridge controller chip which is SATA2.

 I stand naked and corrected again.....You should have been a Lawyer ... hahahah.... Brings back memory's of my father... "Allan, I have Many faults, but being wrong is not one of them"

 Aussie Allan

[Badbonji]

Sorry about that! I looked at a product page on a random shopping site and it didn't state anything about sata 3, just sata 2 ports!