Advice for a good rig. £800 ish

Perhaps a bit desperate but you could always save some cash by going with a 6 core AMD piledriver processor. Yes, it's older tech with slower DDR3 memory but with the money saved you might be able to go up to an R9 390X or GTX980 for even the XFX Fury is £359 from OCuk at the minute. If DX12 delivers as is promised going forward, those 6 cores could actually give you advantage over the 4 core i5's if it's just for gaming... bit of a gamble I suppose.

Probably best to wait although that would much easier said than done for me...
 
I stupidly sold old PC cause I started a family . Didn't have much use the first year of being a father and could see that it was going to get filled with milk,juice or whatever he could push into it. I'm pretty sure it cost £950 ish and it was bought from an auction site that I linked to previously but removed. It had a crosshair 750 psu and a ssd 120 and water cooled. I ended up with an Xbox one and instantly regretted it.
I hate fps on a pad I hated the graphics. So now it's just a dust collector.
I'm shocked to find out that after 3/4 years I can't improve on old rig for similar ££££. I think it would be wise to wait for new gpu,s and of course new BF. If they say what specs are needed.
Thoughts?
Cheers.
 
heartburnron said:
Perhaps a bit desperate but you could always save some cash by going with a 6 core AMD piledriver processor. Yes, it's older tech with slower DDR3 memory but with the money saved you might be able to go up to an R9 390X or GTX980 for even the XFX Fury is £359 from OCuk at the minute. If DX12 delivers as is promised going forward, those 6 cores could actually give you advantage over the 4 core i5's if it's just for gaming... bit of a gamble I suppose.

Probably best to wait although that would much easier said than done for me...
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Worst advice ever, even amd 8 cores struggle against old i5's let alone skylake,

Op congratulations on becoming a father I would wait or go used
 
Thanks for all replies and advice. I did look at amd but no games use the extra cores? So I've read.
I'm am going to wait for new gpu,s and save a bit more coin. Then reaccess the situation.
Thanks.
 
faceman123 said:
Worst advice ever, even amd 8 cores struggle against old i5's let alone skylake,

Op congratulations on becoming a father I would wait or go used
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Oh come on, I'm specifically talking about DX12 and the expected performance boost by utilising all the CPU cores. I know an i5 is a stronger chip than the FX-8350, I replaced one with an i5 (well, the whole rig), but that may no longer be the case once DX12 becomes embedded in games over the near future. There are loads of benchmarks showing the significant gains in FPS and performance with more cores.

And I did say it was a bit of desperate option. If it was me and I decided I was buying a rig, I wouldn't be able to wait 2 months no matter how sensible it would be to do so. Therefore, I would want to understand all options on the table, albeit this particular option in discussion would be a bit of a gamble - oh wait, I already said that...
 
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smarlow said:
I'm shocked to find out that after 3/4 years I can't improve on old rig for similar ££££.
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The thing is that since those 3-4 years Intel has basically been treading water and has only been giving us tiny performance increases with each new generation. In the meantime the prices have shot up and a unlocked core i5 is now £190+. It's the same with the graphics cards. The 780 is pretty close to a 970 so the only real and worthwhile upgrade is a 980ti which start at around £500. That's the best part of £70 of the budget gone with just two components. Pricing these days are just ridiculous.
 
I'm starting to see that. I've got my eye on 5 used rigs that have 980,s . If I don't win I'll wait till end of summer and see what happens when new cards arrive.
How ever it pans out I'll update and let you all know what I ended up with.
 
Intel core i7 3770K overclocked 4.5 ghz
Evga gtx 980ti SC+
Asus z77 sabertooth gaming mobo
1tb Seagate sshd
16gb (4x4gb) corsair vengeance ram
Corsair ax860 power supply
Corsair air 540 case white

Any advice on price used.
Thinking cpu is old ?
Thanks.
 
That's a nice build and the 3770k is still a very good cpu, especially one clocked at 4.5Ghz. Excellent gpu, good motherboard and psu too. The only thing missing is a ssd. As it's second hand I would expect that to easily go for your £800 budget or a lot more if it's on ebay that you are watching it. If it was our members market on here then probably £750-800 by the time the seller got brutally battered down.
 
i7-5930k
EVGA GTX 980TI Overclocked
Hyper X DDR4 4x4GB
Asus X99-Pro

Corsair H110i
EVGA SuperNova 750 G2
Fractal Design Define R5 with Window
Intel 730 240GB SSD
500GB HDD
DVD 24X

Or this £999.
Don't know if I'm breaking rules? If I am sorry. & remove.
 
2nd build is much better but if that's second hand I would try and haggle the price down.

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