Upgrade from i5 2500K and 660Ti £700 Budget

Liam0126 · 1 Oct 2017 at 11:13

Hi there,

I am looking to upgrade my current system as it is starting to struggle running some games and applications like Adobe Premier Pro etc. I built the pc back in December 2011 and have been out of the loop for while so I'm not too clued up with what is best at this moment.

My current system is:

Coolermaster HAF 932 Case
Intel i5 2500K (unclocked)
MSI Nvidia 660Ti
Kingston 8GB Ram 2x4gb DDR3 1600Mhz
Coolermaster 750W Power Supply
500GB SSD + various other hard drives

I do however, have access to a ASRock AMD AM4 Ryzen X370 Taichi ATX Motherboard which can be used if the AMD CPU route is better.

My budget for this is ideally less than £700

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Journey · 2 Oct 2017 at 08:36

Use the X370 board you have, buy an R5 1600/R7 1700, and 16GB DDR4 RAM, then add GPU to suit your needs, if you are not playing games then a GTX 1060 3GB might be overkill but is the equivalent of what you have now in the current generation.

Re-use the rest of your kit, job done.

orbitalwalsh · 2 Oct 2017 at 08:39

^^^^^^^^^^

since you had the Ti, 6GB version would match it as Ti was much much better then the gtx 660 form which I had but you might find the 6GB over kill- would rather have 1700 and 1060 3GB then 1600 and 6gb version if Prem Pro is being used long with what im guessing it other apps open at the same time

jasonsony735 · 2 Oct 2017 at 09:32

for that sort of money wait for the i5 8600k and get that its going to be a beast and for £600 or just over you could get that and motherboard and memory.

Journey · 2 Oct 2017 at 09:39

jasonsony735 said:
for that sort of money wait for the i5 8600k and get that its going to be a beast and for £600 or just over you could get that and motherboard and memory.

So he has access to one of the two best AM4 motherboards on the planet, and you think he should waste money on a Z370 board and a 6c/6t CPU?

Just why. :confused:

orbitalwalsh · 2 Oct 2017 at 10:11

z390 chipset will support 8 core intels if internal roadmaps in correct

ryzen 1700 does smash i7 in 4k rendering- he'd be looking at the i7 8700 or K version in reality - with non K version proberly the better option to keep costs down and if rendering is priority over gaming.

Would just take the taichi- 1700 and then slap in zen2 in 2019 as the board should be still better then budget/mainstream ryzen 2019 boards