tax refund check? which 1 to get? blu ray burner, 8 GB Ram, or 8800 upgrade

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ChemiosMurphy

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• Apr 5, 2008

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Hi everyone. I'm kind of stuck on what to do for my tax refund check of under $500. Here's the options on what to get for my early 08 8 core MP.

-Blu-Ray Burner (I have boot camp with vista)

-8 gigs of OWC Ram

- upgrade my ATi2600 for an 8800. * I read that for core services the 2600 is more optimized, my main background is final cut but i game over on the dark side of boot camp.

What do you guys think? Any suggestions of anything else to get?

Currently my rig has the standard 8 core setup, except i bought a 750 gig WD drive and replaced the slow/crappy 320 GBHD.

 

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72930

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• Apr 5, 2008

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RAM would be the best IMO

Toast can burn to BR btw if you don't want to switch OS.

 

byocrysis

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• Apr 5, 2008

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I would go for the 8800 if you game

 

Lord Zedd

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• Apr 5, 2008

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ChemiosMurphy said:

Hi everyone. I'm kind of stuck on what to do for my tax refund check of under $500.

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Invest it in stocks or pay your bills with it so you don't hurt the economy by raising the inflation rate.

 

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Salavat23

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Lord Zedd said:

Invest it in stocks or pay your bills with it so you don't hurt the economy by raising the inflation rate.

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That will never give you the thrill of opening a box containing a shiny new 8800 GT, 8GB of ram, or a sweet new Blu-Ray burner

 

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supercooled

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• Apr 5, 2008

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Silly boy (man), no Blu-Ray until media becomes at least some what affordable.

 

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ChemiosMurphy

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supercooled said:

Silly boy (man), no Blu-Ray until media becomes at least some what affordable.

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I do digital video...i could make a killing taking HDV and burning it to blu-ray for other students at my university...

 

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jjahshik32

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I would get the 8gb RAM and then later on 8800gt then not even consider the bluray for a long while and just get more HDD space.

 

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trainguy77

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ChemiosMurphy said:

I do digital video...i could make a killing taking HDV and burning it to blu-ray for other students at my university...

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If you think you could make alot of money then buy the blue-ray. Make that money then buy the RAM and GPU.

 

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benpatient

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• Apr 6, 2008

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unless you're charging over 100 bucks a transfer for an hour of HDV, then you won't be making a killing.

I'd get the RAM.