Helsinki98
New Member
Hi,
I'm looking to get a bit of a performance increase or advice on what to upgrade on my system (below)
CPU: Intel q6600 not overclocked (4 years old) CPU
Mobo: abit aw9d (5 years old)
Cpu cooler: arctic freezer no 7
Ram: 4gb ram ddr2 800mhz (2 year old)
GPU: Power colour ATI 4850 1gb (2 year old) GPU
PSU: Hiper 650 or 750 watt (5 years old)
hdd: 200gb maxtor (5 years old) and a 1tb samsung (year old)
drive: dvd read and write. (5 years old)
Monitor: samsung 26" flat screen tv
windows 7 64bit
Looking to increase performance with an input of $470-315/£300-£200.
I mainly use, photoshop, googlesketchup, autocad, kerkythea (rendering program)
I need to have sketchup, autocad and photoshop open at once all running fairly large files, I also have netflix on a second monitor. I have noticed recently that my computer is freezing and taking a long time to save/open my sketchup models and autocad files, its generally getting a bit slow.
I think my ram is the main issue as on my g15 monitor I see the ram at around 90% constantly and cpu at 10%-50% unless rendering.
The lower the price the better but $415/£300 is my limit. I was thinking maybe another 4gig of ram and an ssd to hold windows and files I am actively working on then moving them to one of the larger slower drives for storing, not sure if this would solve my issues with files taking a long time to open and save though, the sketchup models can get laggy when exploding large groups and when selecting complex models.
The last time I tried upgrading my ram i found with 6gb windows wasn't stable and would crash, I was using a new 4gb (2x2gb sticks) and the previous 2gb (2x 1gb sticks) I had installed before. They where both ddr2 but I don't know if anything else about them was similar.
Any advice would be great, cheers
I'm looking to get a bit of a performance increase or advice on what to upgrade on my system (below)
CPU: Intel q6600 not overclocked (4 years old) CPU
Mobo: abit aw9d (5 years old)
Cpu cooler: arctic freezer no 7
Ram: 4gb ram ddr2 800mhz (2 year old)
GPU: Power colour ATI 4850 1gb (2 year old) GPU
PSU: Hiper 650 or 750 watt (5 years old)
hdd: 200gb maxtor (5 years old) and a 1tb samsung (year old)
drive: dvd read and write. (5 years old)
Monitor: samsung 26" flat screen tv
windows 7 64bit
Looking to increase performance with an input of $470-315/£300-£200.
I mainly use, photoshop, googlesketchup, autocad, kerkythea (rendering program)
I need to have sketchup, autocad and photoshop open at once all running fairly large files, I also have netflix on a second monitor. I have noticed recently that my computer is freezing and taking a long time to save/open my sketchup models and autocad files, its generally getting a bit slow.
I think my ram is the main issue as on my g15 monitor I see the ram at around 90% constantly and cpu at 10%-50% unless rendering.
The lower the price the better but $415/£300 is my limit. I was thinking maybe another 4gig of ram and an ssd to hold windows and files I am actively working on then moving them to one of the larger slower drives for storing, not sure if this would solve my issues with files taking a long time to open and save though, the sketchup models can get laggy when exploding large groups and when selecting complex models.
The last time I tried upgrading my ram i found with 6gb windows wasn't stable and would crash, I was using a new 4gb (2x2gb sticks) and the previous 2gb (2x 1gb sticks) I had installed before. They where both ddr2 but I don't know if anything else about them was similar.
Any advice would be great, cheers
