1440p gaming upgrade - £700-800 budget

[joeflaherty]

Hi all. After years of happy gaming, my rig is now starting to show its age. I've upgraded it piecemeal over a few years, but I think it's getting to the point where I need to upgrade the GPU, monitor, CPU and MOBO. My current games run at a solid 60fps, but I'd like a QHD 144hz monitor and everything that would be needed to drive it!

The current set-up is as follows:

• i5-4670k 3.40GHz
• MSI Z87-G45
• Asus ROG Strix RX480 8GB
• 16GB DDR3 RAM (Kingston HyperX Beast) @ 2400 MHz
• Corsair 600W CX Series 80
  
• Samsung 500GB SSD, plus a 1TB HDD
• 24" Acer HD monitor
• Zalman Z3 plus ATX case

Ideally I'd like to keep the case, RAM, SSD and PSU, so I'm really looking for a solid CPU, GPU and MOBO. PSU can be upgraded if needed but hopefully 600W should be sufficient. Thanks in advance!

 

[Joxeon]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £98.99
• 1 x Team Group Night Hawk RGB 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - RGB Black (TF1D4= £74.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £154.99
• 1 x Asus Radeon RX 5700 XT ROG Strix OC 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £349.99

Total: £690.06 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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This is the sort of set up you would need to drive QHD 144hz though if you also need a monitor included in the budget you would ideally need another £350+
You would need new ram as everything nowadays is DDR4
You could sell on your old mtherboard CPU and ram to put towards a new monitor.