£300 how would you spend it?

joelk2

joelk2

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so this is my current spec

mobo: asrock B75 Matx
cpu: I3 3220
GPU: Gigabyte HD7850 OC (2gb)
PSU: Corsair 430w Modular
Ram: 8GB Samsung green (man im glad i got this when it was on a daily for £35)
case: xigmatek asgard pro.

so how would you spend £300 to improve this?

my thinking is

Asrock z77 pro-m
3570k
cooler maybe h60
 
Orch said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £137.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
Total : £268.78 (includes shipping : £9.00).



and which ever cooler you fancy
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Not though about amd processors before. Aren't intel ones better and can be overclocked to make it even better??

oceaness said:
Do you have an SSD?
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Don't have an ssd no. My assumption is that the processor would be a better upgrade considering my budget.


hakank68 said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
Total : £309.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).

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Thanks. Needs to be matx though. Plus that's over budget and doesn't include a cooler.
 
oceaness said:
It depends what you use the computer for.

I'd probably get a decent SSD like this. It'd make your system considerably more responsive when opening and closing programs and booting up. Though you are right it would also benefit from a CPU upgrade.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £86.99
Total : £94.73 (includes shipping : £6.45).

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It's used just for gaming. Nothing else.
 
Hmm yeah you're probably right then. I was just thinking, could you drop an i5 Ivy Bridge chip in to your existing board, you wouldn't be able to overclock of course, but it could be an option.

You could get a retail K model, use the stock cooler for now and then upgrade the mobo and get a cooler if you'd like to overclock it later.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £86.99
Total : £276.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
List it on MM (apart from GPU and possibly keep the RAM) and then have an extended budget of which would go so much further?
 
Th0nt said:
List it on MM (apart from GPU and possibly keep the RAM) and then have an extended budget of which would go so much further?
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I have included selling my CPU/mobo in my budget.

Is the evo 212 a good cooler??

I wanted to overclock really so needed to do my mobo for that.

Is haswell a better option that the 3570k series?
 
If I had such budget & hardware, I wouldn't bother Haswell, nor "K" processor.

For 40 quids = OCZ Agility 3 60 GB (Ebay, manuf. refurbished)
For 140 = i5-3330
Intel Core i5-3330 3.00GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail
7850 sold for ~100 + 120 rest = 220 for graphic card:
**B Grade** Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

20 quids in pocket for drinking beer & salut for me ;-)

Now - imagine: what's better: Haswell "K" CPU + 7850, or IvyBridge i5 + 7970.
 
joelk2 said:
Not though about amd processors before. Aren't intel ones better and can be overclocked to make it even better??



Don't have an ssd no. My assumption is that the processor would be a better upgrade considering my budget.




Thanks. Needs to be matx though. Plus that's over budget and doesn't include a cooler.
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is there any way you can push the budget a little higher ?
 
biuro74 said:
If I had such budget & hardware, I wouldn't bother Haswell, nor "K" processor.

For 40 quids = OCZ Agility 3 60 GB (Ebay, manuf. refurbished)
For 140 = i5-3330
Intel Core i5-3330 3.00GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail
7850 sold for ~100 + 120 rest = 220 for graphic card:
**B Grade** Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

20 quids in pocket for drinking beer & salut for me ;-)

Now - imagine: what's better: Haswell "K" CPU + 7850, or IvyBridge i5 + 7970.
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I hadn't thought about that option but then most peeps go for the overclockable chips for the future proofness. I'm hoping to make mine a bit like that. I know I will need to upgrade some more bits in the future but it's decideding what to do at the moment.

It's inevitable that I'm going to need a smaller case in the not so distant future so I have my eye on a few different ones which are coming out. The phenom and the Jonsbo u3.

They both seem to fit the bill for my space requirements.
 
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