Upgrade advice needed! (£600 budget)

scottyp · 24 Oct 2010 at 03:05

Hey there, I'm looking to upgrade my 2-3 year old rig which is starting to show its age (8800GT, C2D E6750)

I'll be keeping my case which is a antec sonata III with the inbuilt 500w psu and my disk drive. I also dont need an OS and I'll be doing a bit of overclocking.

I was planning to buy another 6850 later on and run them in crossfire but there's so much choice atm so I dunno. What do you guys think?

Thanks.

I've been looking at something like this:

95thrifles · 24 Oct 2010 at 04:19

What are you planning on using the PC for?

Basill · 24 Oct 2010 at 05:46

OcUK Value GeForce GTX 470 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with MAFIA 2 £187.99
(£159.99) £187.99
(£159.99)
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £138.64
(£117.99) £138.64
(£117.99)
Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £88.11
(£74.99) £88.11
(£74.99)
Patriot Viper 2 Sector 5 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit Patriot Viper 2 Sector 5 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit £72.84
(£61.99) £72.84
(£61.99)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £43.99
(£37.44) £43.99
(£37.44)
Titan Fenrir Evo CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366/AMD K8/AM2/AM2+/AM3) Titan Fenrir Evo CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366/AMD K8/AM2/AM2+/AM3) £35.99
(£30.63) £35.99
(£30.63)
Sub Total : £483.03

Total :£578.72

I would go for that but cant say much more since you want to keep your 550w psu a 470 might not be ideal so could drop it for a 1gb 460.

scottyp · 24 Oct 2010 at 09:27

I'll be using it for gaming. I made a mistake aswell the psu is 500w.

95thrifles · 24 Oct 2010 at 10:18

for gaming Id look at the quad core 955 and the 6870, better gfx which will help and the cpu will make no difference to gaming, go that route
Also change RAM to the below, and get better cooler (again as below)

HIS ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE CODMW2 PC-Game £199.99 (£170.20)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £117.49 (£99.99)
Asus M4A89GTD PRO AMD 890GX (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £99.99 (£85.10)
Patriot Viper 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C7 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS34G1600LLK) £57.99 (£49.35)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £43.99 (£37.44)
Titan Fenrir Evo CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366/AMD K8/AM2/AM2+/AM3) £35.99 (£30.63)
Sub Total : £472.71
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £84.47
Total : £567.18

Metroid · 24 Oct 2010 at 11:09

I would drop the Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB and get the Intel M25-V 40GB.

Jony27 · 24 Oct 2010 at 11:12

no keep the samsung f3 as the read/write speeds of that ssd is really slow..dont drop it just for the sake of having a really slow SSD in your rig

stulid · 24 Oct 2010 at 11:19

Metroid said:
I would drop the Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB and get the Intel M25-V 40GB.

you would need a harddrive for storage, 40gb wont get you very far. lol

[TW]Sponge · 24 Oct 2010 at 11:33

Metroid said:
I would drop the Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB and get the Intel M25-V 40GB.

Ha!

Jony27 · 24 Oct 2010 at 11:35

i think this guy really wants a SSD even if its a slow one.

Mayfair · 24 Oct 2010 at 11:37

Metroid said:
I would drop the Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB and get the Intel M25-V 40GB.

You what? a max of 40GB for all your data are you crazy?

As stulid said..

stulid said:
you would need a harddrive for storage, 40gb wont get you very far. lol

scottyp · 24 Oct 2010 at 12:49

lol dont worry guys i'm staying with the 1TB samsung. cheers for all the advice.

[TW]Sponge · 24 Oct 2010 at 14:00

BTW what brand of PSU do you have? Nothing worse than buying a new system worth a bit of money then using an old cheap PSU.

Jony27 · 24 Oct 2010 at 14:29

antec earthwatts 500w i believe

Metroid · 24 Oct 2010 at 14:46

stulid said:
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sponge999 said:
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Mayfair said:
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That is the problem. I can't think of anybody that I know that is still using hard drives for the System and Boot. I have been using SSD's for 2 years and been happy so far.

Mayfair · 24 Oct 2010 at 14:58

Metroid said:
That is the problem. I can't think of anybody that I know that is still using hard drives for the System and Boot. I have been using SSD's for 2 years and been happy so far.

Sure SSD's are fine for OS/few games if it's in budget, but he would still need a hdd for extra storage and all his data. Hence why we said what we did when you told him to drop the F3 1TB for a Slow SSD

Jony27 · 24 Oct 2010 at 15:05

you dont know anybody who is still using ssd for the system and boot, so no one in your house/apratment has a laptop?

Metroid · 24 Oct 2010 at 15:47

Mayfair said:
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Slow to write but fast at reading. But yes it is a fail if somebody will use as storage + system as there will be not much space left and It will consequently degrade the SSD.

Jony27 said:
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No, SSD greatest advantage over a hard drive is latency and low power consumption.

[TW]Sponge · 24 Oct 2010 at 15:59

Metroid said:
But yes it is a fail if somebody will use as storage + system as there will be not much space left and It will consequently degrade the SSD.

Dude, you told him to replace his primary hard drive with a poor SSD. Eating your own words a little?

Metroid · 24 Oct 2010 at 16:05

sponge999 said:
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It's a poor SSD for you not for me. I'm not eating my words and I would recommend it again and again but there is no point continuing this discussion any further since he already made his decision.