I'm planning to change my GPU arround Xmas when the DX11 cards come out, ill be upgrading from a BFG 8800GT OC1.

However I can't decide whether to spend any more money (spec in sig) on this rig or save until next summer and buy a new one. The upgrades I have been thinking about are below, what are your opinions as to their worth.

RAM from 4gb to 8gb perhaps 1066 rather than 800 (as standard).
Upgrading the CPU heatsink, I think I can get my Q6600 to 3.4ghz.
SSD for the OS.

The PC will be used for gaming (1920 x 1200) and general work.

Hobgob.

CPU over memory, I assume you are on a 64 bit os?

8gb matched DDR2-800 that will do well over 1066 (crucial ballistix) is about £75

SSD.... I wouldnt bother for a while until they improve further/ drop in price

Yeah I'm on Vista Home Premium 64bit, so its worth upgrading the heatsink then. I'm on an AF7 at the moment, what's the best for a 775 quadcore nowadays?

My RAM at the moment is 2 x 2gb OCZ Reaper so I would be looking to pick another set up for cheap-ish on ebay if I did go down that route.#

Hobgob.

For 775 cooling either a scythe angle or fenrir titan would do you, either handle 4GHz OC's easy.

what psu and case have u got???

Is there any point? DX11 will only add a couple of hardware-dependant features (hardware tesselation, SM 5) while the rest will run on existing DX10 with updated drivers. It'll take a while before games appear that use these features, so you may end up with a card which has features that aren't used and when they are, the card may be out of date. Why not get a good DX10 card now and upgrade when it's actually needed?

Yeah, its not dx11 I'm particularly bothered about I'm just not that impressed with the performance gains from any cards out there at the moment compared to my 8800GT, so I'm just wait for the next gen.

I have an Antec 900 (the first one) and an OCZ 620W none modular. I was considering a PSU upgrade too but I would want to be able to used it in a future build as well, so if I did upgrade my PSU I would spend a decent chunk and get a 1kw+ unit.

Hobgob.

Read post wrong

I would also suggest avoiding Overclockers like the plague.

Damn right, theiving barsterwards.

No offence boothy that sounds like a big waste of money to me, I'm swapping 4gb of 800 Mhz RAM for 4gb of 1066Mhz Ram, I have plenty of storage my CPU has lots of room left to OC with a better cooler.

The i7 will have to wait until next year.

Hobgob.

8gb or ddr2-800 over 4gb ddr2-1066 any day

+1

I'd also wait for DX11 to bed in first, maybe 2nd generation DX11 parts too.

Hmmms so I think until I will just upgrade the CPU HSF now and attempt a larger OC. Ill keep looking online to try and find some identical ram to mine on ebay as well.

Hobgob.