£600 - £750 to spend on rig upgrade

Crixus00 · 1 Nov 2012 at 10:48

Hey guys,

I think my Graphics card is on the way out as it is showing signs of artifacting and some freezing, all the excuses I need to upgrade my system

Had my 5870 for three years now I guess and to be fair it has served me extremely well.

So.. I'm thinking I would also take the opportunity to upgrade some more of my ageing components (existing rig in sig), specifically:

- Graphics card
- Motherboard
- CPU
- SSD Boot disk (to one single 256gb preferably)

- My existing power supply (OCZ 700w) has worked perfectly fine to date. But I wonder if I should consider upgrading this too?

I want decent performance so happy to spend £600 - 750.

Any idea's would be appreciated. Cheers.

Robbiec053 · 1 Nov 2012 at 10:52

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III OC V2 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £251.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD250BW) £159.98
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99
Total : £721.36 (includes shipping : £9.50).

840 range of SSDs are available for pre-order but could save £10 by opting for the 830 instead of the 840.

triggerthat · 1 Nov 2012 at 11:48

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire HD 7950 OC 3072MB PCI-Express Graphics Card (11196-01-20G) with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive - (MZ-7PC256B/WW) £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £83.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 600W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020048-UK) £52.98
Total : £723.94 (includes shipping : £10.00).

Or with a 670:

YOUR BASKET
1 x POV-TGT GeForce GTX 670 Charged 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £263.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive - (MZ-7PC256B/WW) £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £83.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 600W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020048-UK) £52.98
Total : £747.94 (includes shipping : £10.00).

Crixus00 · 1 Nov 2012 at 13:47

Thanks for the responses. Can I ask what are the differences between the motherboards (apart from price?):

- Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99

&

- Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £83.99

honosuseri · 1 Nov 2012 at 13:55

The Z77X-D3H allows for SLI/Xfire the Z77-D3H is a single GPU mobo

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III OC V2 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £251.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive - (MZ-7PC256B/WW) £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £83.99
Total : £670.96 (includes shipping : FREE).

EDIT seen your sig, you dont need a heatsink

Idleman · 1 Nov 2012 at 13:58

Crixus00 said:
Thanks for the responses. Can I ask what are the differences between the motherboards (apart from price?):

- Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99

&

- Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £83.99

The Z77X is sli/xfire capable.

Idleman · 1 Nov 2012 at 14:03

honosuseri said:
There are cheaper heatsink alternatives but ideally we need to know your case to make sure we pick one that fits. You can use the stock intel heatsink but to overclock the CPU an aftermarket heatsink is advisable. You can also OC the GPU very easily for extra performance, I included some Low profile RAM that would fit under any heatsink, you could consider selling off your old mobo bundle to recoup some cash

ASUS P7P55D LE ATX / i5 750 @ 4.1ghz / H100/ ATI RADEON 5870 GFX / RAID 0 Kingston 40gb ssd x2 / Corsair Vengeance 8gb RAM / Asus Xonar d1 / 27" Hazro / Razer Naga Epic / logitech g15 Keyboard/ Fractual Arc midi case

I think you missed this mate.

Crixus00 · 1 Nov 2012 at 14:07

Thanks all for your comments. I think I will go for the cheaper mobo as I only want a single gpu setup. Will do a bit more research and hopefully place an order by the weekend.

honosuseri · 1 Nov 2012 at 14:13

Idleman said:
I think you missed this mate.

At the start I did, edited before you pointed it out lol Atleast I remembered the free P&P hey

Might be worth getting some Low profile RAM and let the old stuff go with the old mobo and CPU to help sell it. Low Profile is easier to live with and the aggressive heatspreaders dont really do anything to be honest

Crixus00 · 1 Nov 2012 at 14:25

honosuseri said:
At the start I did, edited before you pointed it out lol Atleast I remembered the free P&P hey

Might be worth getting some Low profile RAM and let the old stuff go with the old mobo and CPU to help sell it. Low Profile is easier to live with and the aggressive heatspreaders dont really do anything to be honest

One of the reasons I bought the H100 was the room it affords around the motherboard to accommodate my huge ass RAM. If I was to buy more RAM i would prob buy low profile next time for sure.