£700 Gaming PC recommendations

[Rhaos]

Hi Guys

Need a little assistance in helping me decide what compontents to purchase for my gaming rig. I haven't upgraded in a while and lookign for a good gamning rig to play Guild Wars 2 and PlaneSide 2 at 1920 x1080. Currnetly running the following setup:

Core 2 Duo E8500 running at 4ghz
Radeon HD 5850
4GB Ram
Windows 7 x64 installed on a 64GB SSD
Corsair Hydro h60 CPU cooler

I've got in the vicinty of ~£700 to spend on Motherboard, Graphics Card (Prefer Nvidia over ATI) and RAM. Would prefer to stick to my current CPU Cooler if possible, but willing to listen to other options I have for cood CPU cooling.

Cheers

 

[Sparx]

Presumably you need a new CPU as well? What is your PSU? Also do you not need a new case, hard drive or a bigger/faster SSD?

EDIT: Here's my suggestion anyway with an added PSU for good measure in case your current is not powerful enough.

YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 670 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £287.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £107.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £92.99
1 x Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PXD38G1600LLK) £39.95
Total : £708.90 (includes shipping : FREE).

 

[Rhaos]

Presumably you need a new CPU as well? What is your PSU? Also do you not need a new case, hard drive or a bigger/faster SSD?

EDIT: Here's my suggestion anyway with an added PSU for good measure in case your current is not powerful enough.

YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 670 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £287.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £107.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £92.99
1 x Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PXD38G1600LLK) £39.95
Total : £708.90 (includes shipping : FREE).

Yeahs sorry I do need a new CPU but no need for a new case or SSD. I will however be interested in a new PSU however the current one will do for now (not sure on the wattage though will check when I get home)

With regards to OC'ing, wil lthe Motherboard and CPU offer me good overclocks?

 

[tamzzy]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £339.95
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £78.98
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 520W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £62.99
1 x GeIL Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £39.95
Total : £703.86 (includes shipping : £10.00).



oem i5 3570k cuz its cheaper, but less warranty (1yr vs 3 yr on retail) but cpu is very very unlikely to fail, so its a worthy tradeoff
850w psu is overkill for a single gpu system.
motherboard cant sli, so psu specced as such
cooler and quieter gtx670
low profile ram if you ever decide to air cool. but your h60 is fine.