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JonoB

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Hi,

I have an old i5-3330 with 8GB ram that I want to upgrade. I have about £600 to spend. Used mostly for work and a little bit of gaming.

Here's what I am looking at so far:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £463.43 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Few questions:

- I have an existing case that I would prefer to keep. Does this CPU come with a heatsink + cooler?
- Will my PSU be sufficient (its a 300w)
- Will my existing PCI-E graphics card (750Ti) work?

I have another +/- £150 to spend; I'm thinking of going for 32GB as this is a work PC, and the extra ram would be awesome (I run VM's).

Any suggestions greatly appreciated!
 

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board out of stock but gigabyte z390 is better then most top end z370 boards ! 10+2 vrm set up .

if you can push for i5 9600k then do so as the IHS is soldered and should run slightly cooler!

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £230.44 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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you'd need to grab a heatsink /cooler

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/alpenfohn-ben-nevis-cpu-cooler-120mm-hs-048-al.html

if going VM... might want to look into Ryzen 1700 for £200 odd with 8 cores and 16 threads ....
 

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JonoB said:
It came with a zoostorm PC, so yeah, its a zoostorm PSU; i.e. not great ;)
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My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £642.92 (includes shipping: £11.10)​
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JonoB

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Thanks everyone, that's very helpful.

I'm thinking of going for 32GB ram - should I just get 4 sticks of the above ram, or would you recommend something else?
 

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JonoB said:
Thanks everyone, that's very helpful.

I'm thinking of going for 32GB ram - should I just get 4 sticks of the above ram, or would you recommend something else?
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Cheaper to get 4 sticks since the 2 x16gb is out of stock .

Z390 pathways and intel IMC are better then ryzen .
Should be plug and play with xmp enabled . If this was Ryzen based system , might have to play around etc .
Saving grace of intel

Heads up , can buy a 8700 for £300 odd. This is NON k so no overclocking but you get Hyper Threading which would be very handy for VM set up !

If you can Google and pick up i7 8700 non K for £300, should bring it to £660 odd

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £708.01 (includes shipping: £11.10)


Hyperthreading doesn't add as much to gaming performance but for VM/workstation loads- it can help greatly

It's all core boost is 4.3ghz and sdual is 4.5ghz so still pretty quick !

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/core_i7/i7-8700​
 
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pastymuncher said:
I know it's a extra £7 but it's a extra 50w plus you jump from bronze rated to gold rated. I wouldn't even consider a bronze rated psu now with gold rated units available for a reasonable price.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
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For 2£ less:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £65.45 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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I was doing an i7-8700 spec yesterday as well but got busy with something else.

If you mix some stuff from elsewhere along with stuff from OcUK, you can get the cost to under £650. Plus get cheaper RAM with the max speed for B360 board.

i7-8700 - £312.99 + BeQuiet Pure Power 11 400W - £43.99 = £358.98 shipped.

Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 2666MHz - £177.59 shipped.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £107.44 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Total: £644.01

You can ask OcUK to price match as well, sometimes they do.
 
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4K8KW10 said:
For 2£ less:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £65.45 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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They cheaped on the internals plus it's still only bronze rated. Most of the reason I suggested the other one was because it's gold rated.

In my mind with all the push towards energy efficiency, bog standard 80 plus white and bronze should be gotten rid of and gold standard should be the minimum now. In most cases you would be getting a psu that is more efficient and have better quality internals. Sadly I don't think that it will ever happen.
 

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as for boards, both 4+3 vrm set up, asrock uses more chokes . designs seem standard for b360 ( before 9th gen rolled out )

lead to aorus designing their b360 to have huge Heatsinks. VRM seem to be changed slightly - looks like 2 hi and 2 low mosfet , not standard 1 hi - 2 low normally seen from vendors

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B360-M-AORUS-PRO-rev-10#kf

both boards should be able to run 8700 just fine to be honest :D
 

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Kurgen said:
just a note as it wasnt mentioned in OP, assume you are already using an SSD.. and more for orbital, any advantage of getting an m.2?
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Its nice having NVMe as OS drive - or if you've got the cash for gaming drives but honestly you wont see much performance gains - even with VM . rather get dual Sata 3 SSD in Raid 1/5 set up or larger SSD.

and this is coming from someone that has few samsung 1tb drives given to myself .

if system is being using for workloads, then NVMe can make huge performance gains! as seen here with 3d mapping tech

https://support.pix4d.com/hc/en-us/...e-Components-Usage-when-processing-with-Pix4D

can shave off hours/days off a workload!

and yes, OP... if you havent got an SSD... do so!

limiting factor for nvme drives in VM is heavy use will get the drives hot and will throttle by themselves
 
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