A new PC budget build

[Gripen90]

It's soon time for a budget upgrade for my other PC (well my girlfriend is using that one), and I want to make it fairly budget oriented buy still capable of decent gaming in 1920x1080 resolution.

The build is currently looking like this:

Fractal Design Define R3 Arctic White
Asus M4N82 Deluxe BIOS 2101
4x2GB Crucial BallistiX PC6400 CL4 DDR2
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition
Sunbeam Core ContactFreezer
2x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OverClocked 1GB 2-way-SLi
Cooler Master GX750 PSU
Seagate Barracuda 12 500GB SATAIII.
Samsung DVD-RW (SH203 something)
4x120mm case fans


The old hardware will be sold but I'm not sure what would make a sensible upgrade ? I'm not keen on going AMD because of the power consumption on the FX series, so this kind of limits it to an Intel budget build.

What would be sensible upgrading to ?. I we need a new motherboard, CPU, Ram and I'm thinking of a single GPU solutions which may not be much slower than the current setup.

Budget ? if it can all be done within something like £400~420.

 

[Gripen90]

Ooh please don't yell at each other

Well I've decided that well be going for the following


Intel® Core i5-3450 Processor, Socket-LGA1155, Quad Core, 3.1Ghz, 6MB, Boxed w/fan
MSI B75MA-P45, Socket-1155
Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 8GB, Kit w/2X HyperX 4GB DDR3, CL9-9-9-27, 240pin
= about £221.

As for graphics I'm still undecided whether to go AMD Radeon HD 7850/7870 2GB or GTX 660 2GB.

 

[supergluechris]

Ooh please don't yell at each other

Well I've decided that well be going for the following


Intel® Core i5-3450 Processor, Socket-LGA1155, Quad Core, 3.1Ghz, 6MB, Boxed w/fan
MSI B75MA-P45, Socket-1155
Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 8GB, Kit w/2X HyperX 4GB DDR3, CL9-9-9-27, 240pin
= about £221.

As for graphics I'm still undecided whether to go AMD Radeon HD 7850/7870 2GB or GTX 660 2GB.

why not go for 4gb ram and save some cash and get the 3570k and use one of the 460s from your old rig and save up for a 670?

 

[dacads]

Not sure on the age of the components but I would re-use everything except the cpu, mobo and GPUs

Get an i5 3570k & gigabyte z77-d3h mobo. GPU a GTX 660 or radeon 7870

 

[Gripen90]

why not go for 4gb ram and save some cash and get the 3570k and use one of the 460s from your old rig and save up for a 670?

8GB of ram is cheaper than getting 4GB from the shop, so that's the reason, and also because you can utilize more that 2.5 GB in some games (1.5 left for the OS). The 3570K is nice, but is not going to be overclocked since the PC is one my girlfriend will use, and I'd like to keep power consumption a bit lower - therefore no OC. Getting 8GB vs 4GB is only £12 more.

The GTX 460 will be sold together along with the old hardware. I had thought of using 1 GTX 460 but, I'm not sure it's gonna be satisfactory.
A GTX 670 would be nice, but the price is too high for this build. A Radeon HD7950 of the cheapest kind might be within reach if not GTX 660Ti's are going to drop below £200 in Denmark,

Not sure on the age of the components but I would re-use everything except the cpu, mobo and GPUs

Get an i5 3570k & gigabyte z77-d3h mobo. GPU a GTX 660 or radeon 7870

Motherboard and memory are from june 2009. CPU april 2010 and GFX's jan. 2011.

I too had a look at that, while it's tempting a 3570K would be more than needed. Then the £ saved I'd spend a bit more on the GPU.

 

[dunn2010]

Over budget

and i know you said you didnt want i5 3570k but i'd personally get it just for a little bit more future proofing


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £161.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £28
Total : £471.36 (includes shipping : £9.50).