Guys,
I've got a Seagate hard drive, a 7200.7 I think, at 160GB, on an AsRock N68C-S UCC motherboard with an AMD Phenom II X3 710 and an Nvidia 9800GT. The hard drive has just over 65GB of data out of 148GB of available space. I'm looking to upgrade to an SSD and I have about $200. This limits me to a 120GB SSD at the most.
If I go ahead and purchase a 120GB drive is there a relatively simple way to clone my current drive and restore it to the SSD? I've looked this up on Google but I haven't found anything that gives me confidence as a reliable method. Is it worth it to start from scratch with this drive? I still have my Win7 Ultimate 64-bit disc.
Side question: Would it be better to upgrade my CPU or GPU at this moment instead and wait for prices to come down further? I can get an X6 with Turbo, an AMD 6000 series or a GTX 400 or 500 series instead and have some left over. If I've read things correctly AMD and Intel are about to switch sockets which would mean any motherboard upgrade now would be a dead end.
Thoughts? Opinions? I haven't built a desktop in 5 years. Last build was an AMD Athlon X2 3800+ with an ATI Radeon X850XT. This current system I got off Craig's List 3 months ago. Things have changed a lot in the interim and I haven't been paying a ton of attention until recently.
I've got a Seagate hard drive, a 7200.7 I think, at 160GB, on an AsRock N68C-S UCC motherboard with an AMD Phenom II X3 710 and an Nvidia 9800GT. The hard drive has just over 65GB of data out of 148GB of available space. I'm looking to upgrade to an SSD and I have about $200. This limits me to a 120GB SSD at the most.
If I go ahead and purchase a 120GB drive is there a relatively simple way to clone my current drive and restore it to the SSD? I've looked this up on Google but I haven't found anything that gives me confidence as a reliable method. Is it worth it to start from scratch with this drive? I still have my Win7 Ultimate 64-bit disc.
Side question: Would it be better to upgrade my CPU or GPU at this moment instead and wait for prices to come down further? I can get an X6 with Turbo, an AMD 6000 series or a GTX 400 or 500 series instead and have some left over. If I've read things correctly AMD and Intel are about to switch sockets which would mean any motherboard upgrade now would be a dead end.
Thoughts? Opinions? I haven't built a desktop in 5 years. Last build was an AMD Athlon X2 3800+ with an ATI Radeon X850XT. This current system I got off Craig's List 3 months ago. Things have changed a lot in the interim and I haven't been paying a ton of attention until recently.
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