£400 Upgrade advice

zero_prime · 21 Jan 2016 at 18:44

Hello,

I brought it over four years ago and have not kept up to date with pc components. It's a Core 2 duo 4300@ 1.80GHz with 4gb ram. I'm mainly looking to upgrade my motherboard, ram and processor.

I recently brought a new power supply (corsair cx500m) and windows 10 retail.

I don't use it much at the moment. But, I want to use it for light general gaming and occasionally working(web development) from home.

I was initially looking at getting this bundle:
Z97-K - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle

But, I'm unsure about whether I should wait because new bundles are coming out on overclocker.co.uk like

8pack-approved-intel-core-i5-6400-4.4ghz-overclocked-quad-core-gaming-bundle-bu-050-asl

Any suggestion?

Thanks

stulid · 21 Jan 2016 at 19:16

Hi and welcome.

Can you list everything you currently have (case, gfx, drives etc).

zero_prime · 21 Jan 2016 at 19:44

Thank you,

I found my order confirmation email from 2007 and the other components are:

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8Ghz LGA775 Processor
Asus P5VD2-X LGA775, PCI-E, DDR2, SATA2, 5.1Snd, GBLan, ATX
N-880D Silver ATX Case
Asus Radeon HD 6670
320Gb Maxtor DiamondMax21 SATAI/II 8Mb Cache HardDrive
1024Mb DDR2 533Mhz Memory Module (x2)
Hanns G HW191D 19 Inch Widescreen 5ms TFT Monitor with DVI
NEC AD5170A-0B 18X+/-DVD-R Dual Layer Dvd Writer

Initially, I just want to get a new processor, motherboard and ram. then upgrade my other parts. Like SSD etc.

stulid · 21 Jan 2016 at 19:54

The DVD drive you wont be able to reuse as its ribbon cable and not SATA.

The cooler on the 8pack bundle is 165mm tall, would your case accept this and still get the side panel back on?

If money is tight you can get a non overclockable i5 bundle - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/reco...-quad-core-value-gaming-bundle-bu-234-ok.html

Which is still a big upgrade.

And afford a 250Gb SSD also.

zero_prime · 21 Jan 2016 at 20:42

Thank you for your suggestion, take a good look at this bundle.

Also that was a good point about coolers height. I'm unsure of an answer. I have a basic ATX case, so'll I need to do more checking.

stulid · 21 Jan 2016 at 21:04

Another thing to consider is modern GFX card lengths and whether whatever you want to upgrade to will fit inside your case without hitting the HDD cages.