£600 for Motherboard, Ram, CPU and Graphics card.

Daniee

Daniee

Daniee

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I have wanted to upgrade my PC for a while now but could never justify it as my PC plays games mostly on medium-high settings anyway.

Recently on newer games I'm having to turn down settings some more which is starting to bug me as I want to start playing games all on high again.

I have a "spare" £600 to burn and I really want new componants now!

I will only need motherboard, ram, cpu and graphics card as I can salvage the rest of the things needed from my current PC.

I play games at 1920x1200 and would like to get the best possible stuff I can with this money.

I'd probably rather stick with an Nvidia graphics card and an option to go SLI later, but I am open to AMD cards too.

Many thanks!
 
Little bit more but should work great! :
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7870 Hawk 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £215.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard with FREE BOOGIE BUG XXL GAMING MOUSE MAT £129.98
1 x Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU Cooler - Blue (Socket LGA 2011/1155/1156/1366/775/AMD AM2/2+/AM3) £66.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9) £44.99
Total : £649.93 (includes shipping : £10.00).



If you don't plan on overclocking tone down/remove the cpu cooler and possibly get this instead of the GPU above: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-065-HS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1673
 
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Fire_fly said:
What is your current spec, what wattage is your PSU? and do you have an SSD or anything like that?
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I currently have:

CPU: Intel Q6600 2.4ghz
GPU: Nvidia GTX 285
Motherboard: Gigabyte P35C
Ram: 4gb OCZ PC 6400
PSU: Enermax Liberty 620w

I have no SSD but I might look to buy one of those in the future.
 
 
Daniee said:
I currently have:

CPU: Intel Q6600 2.4ghz
GPU: Nvidia GTX 285
Motherboard: Gigabyte P35C
Ram: 4gb OCZ PC 6400
PSU: Enermax Liberty 620w

I have no SSD but I might look to buy one of those in the future.
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But do you have an aftermarket cpu cooler or not? You could always get one later if you want to keep the spec i made. Or if you can up your budget £25-30, we can fit you one in.
 
Idleman said:
But do you have an aftermarket cpu cooler or not? You could always get one later if you want to keep the spec i made. Or if you can up your budget £25-30, we can fit you one in.
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I have an aftermarket cooler currently, I can't quite remember which one it is though. Are they the same on the newer sockets, the way it fits?
 
 
Idleman said:
Slightly over budget.

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7970 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Sleeping Dogs PC Game £299.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38192M1600HC11DC) £27.95
Total : £604.31 (includes shipping : £9.50).

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+1 would change oem cpu to retail though and get a decent cpu cooler at a later date such as the k2 which is about 50 pounds.
 
Idleman said:
With Sli mobo and Nvidia card. Also assuming your cooler will fit.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660TI OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Borderlands 2 PC Game £269.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38192M1600HC11DC) £27.95
Total : £602.32 (includes shipping : £9.50).

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If my cooler doesn't fit will the stock cooler actually be too bad to use?

Many thanks!
 
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Daniee said:
I got it about 2 years ago, it fits my LGA775, it's just 4 pins that push in and twist and pull to remove. If it's the same for the newer sockets then I guess it's fine.
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No mate, i think that is just a 775skt stock cooler. You can just use the stock cooler on the 3570k until you can afford a new cooler.
 
Idleman said:
No mate, i think that is just a 775skt stock cooler. You can just use the stock cooler on the 3570k until you can afford a new cooler.
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It's not the stock cooler. I'm sure it's something like an artic freezer, but I have no record of this on my order history, and I'm not sure what model it is.

I've just looked at some message history, it's an Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro.

I don't think it's the Rev 2 version and I can't find much information about the previous one, so I assume it's not going to be compatible.
 
 
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