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~£700 upgrade advice

pooey

pooey

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Hi folks,

Looking to upgrade from my current i5-2500k / AMD 6970 based system. I'm only after the core component e.g CPU / GPU / RAM / Mobo

At the moment my basket is looking like this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£25 Saving** £385.98
1 x Asus Radeon R9 290 DirectCU II OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £229.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £53.99
Total : £669.96 (includes shipping : ).




I have an OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w which I believe should still be good(?) for now but am planning on replacing some non-core components (SSDs etc) soonish.

Does this look ok to you guys?

Thanks.
 
That looks fine.

What case do you have? does the GFX card fit?

But have you overclocked your 2500K? if it is just for gaming then do the GFX card upgrade first.

What RAM do you have at the moment?
 
Hi Stulid,

Thanks for the quick response.

The case is a Cooler Master ATCS 840 so plenty of space.

I've been running a modest OC on the i5 but my mobo is starting to get a bit flaky (on board audio is b0rk and a pair of SATA ports have just died) which is the main motivation around the upgrade.

The RAM I currently have is 8gb of 1600MHz XMS3.

Cheers.
 
Ok, but I am not sure you need the RAM upgrade as it will make a small improvement compared to the other parts.
 
Cheaper option would be to source a secondhand Z77 mobo.

Don't suppose you have access to the MM?

Is this just a gaming rig or do you require the i7 for other applications, video editing, etc,.
 
isnt the 2500k a pretty decent processor still? You overclocked it yet? For gaming wouldn't a new gpu be better?
 
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