My old PC blew up so time for upgrade

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Hi All

My Old PC of 7 years decided to not turn on... so i decided to upgrade..

Below are my old spec and what i plan to upgrade


Akasa Mirage-62 Aluminum Case

GSkill Dual Channel NR PC2-6400 4GB Total

Enermax Liberty 500W Modular PSU ATX 2.2

Zalman CNPS9500 AM2 AM2/S754/S939/S940

Western Digital 160GB 7200rpm 8MB Cache SATA-II

AMD Athlon 64 X2 FX-62 Dual Core Retail AM2

Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe

Pair of Geforce 7900GTX 512MB



Upgrading



Power Supply - coolermaster-600w-silent-pro-modular-psu-50a-single-rail-9x-sata-rs-600-amba-d3 - just brought not sure if enough power to handle 8 core

Ram - Suggestion

Motherboard - asus-crosshair-v-formula-990fx-socket-am3-8-channel-audio-atx-motherboard-crosshair-v-formula

CPU - amd-bulldozer-fx-8-8120-3-1ghz-socket-am3-8mb-l3-cache-retail-boxed-

CPU Fan - suggestion

Any help would be great
 
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If you're getting a new motherboard as well then pretty much everyones going to say get an i5 2500k, its a lot better than the bulldozer for the same price.
 
Cyanide said:
If you're getting a new motherboard as well then pretty much everyones going to say get an i5 2500k, its a lot better than the bulldozer for the same price.
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Right, something like this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £129.98
1 x OCZ ZS Series 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £64.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £35.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
Total : £442.94 (includes shipping : £10.00).

 
Doomedspeed said:
Right, something like this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £129.98
1 x OCZ ZS Series 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £64.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £35.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
Total : £442.94 (includes shipping : £10.00).

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This, (though if you read, he already has the new PSU).

What is your budget? Are you likely to SLI/Crossfire in the future? If so you don't such an expensive motherboard. Is this for gaming, are you going to upgrade your GPU?
 
I'm really uneasy with budget boards and overclocking (even to 'safe' levels). Maybe I'm being irrational, but I would spend a little more towards, say a P8Z68-V, of that gigabyte board. So, not just for SLI / Xfire.
 
Hi..

I would prefer an AMD. budget of £500 ish. Yes i plan to SLI since i already have SLI on a pair of old Geforce cards.

Many thanks for your quick response so far
 
Any reason for AMD? The i5 is the best for gaming at the moment. Nothing wrong with AMD if you want one, its your money! If you're happy with intel, the spec above it good. Can spend more on a motherboard/cooler if you wish.
 
Any reason for this brand loyalty?

At the moment AMD processors are only competative at the low budget end of the market. You're not that poor. :)
 
 
beejjacobs said:
if you up the budget slightly you can get anew GPU too - more efficient, likely to be quieter, and more powerful etc...


YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti OC Twin FrozR II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £184.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £99.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £35.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
Total : £532.34 (includes shipping : £9.50).

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+1 to this. Definitely get rid of those old cards if you can, something new will be more power efficient, quieter, faster...

Take a look here to see why we are recommending the i5: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/434?vs=288 and, more specifically here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4955/the-bulldozer-review-amd-fx8150-tested/8

As you can see, performance is mostly better than the bulldozer and at a much more reasonable price point.

EDIT: If you are REALLY set on the AMD, you might just be better off with a 960t (although honestly I'm not really sure).
 
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Get a 2gb 560ti, they aren't much more and modern games use more than 1gb although I'm sure someone will come along and disagree with me on that...
 
how about this motherboard?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-493-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

Shopping list so far

1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £173.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £35.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99 (other suggestion? if poss)


Later date to be purchased
2 x MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti OC Twin FrozR II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £184.99
 
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That one will be better for SLI.

Can't say I've heard a great deal about it but reviews seem to say it's pretty ok.

EDIT: The sata 3 etc will make it quite future proof too.
 
The one I specced has SATA3, USB3 and supports SLI.

Ah, just seen you edit. Why 2 GTX560Tis? Unless you need/want/love SLI there may be better options out there (yes they will perform very well, but a single card will be relatively issue free, less noisy etc...). You'd also want a new PSU probably too.
 
any other suggestions for motherboard?

The features are pretty good for Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard at £129.98,
 
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