Fielding a potential upgrade £700

Mitzy · 10 Jan 2013 at 17:40

I honestly havent been able to decide on anything solid, have just been promoted and as a result my disposable income has more than doubled.

I have £700 that I can easily budget towards an upgrade.

I have a HTPC in a Lian Li C50b (cooler clearance is 135mm)
In the box I have an i7K IB on an Asus MVG using onboard GFX with 16GB of Samsung Green. I have two ageing Samsung Spinpoints in Raid 0.

EDIT: I also have an old Corsair HX520 PSU with all the detachable cables missing bar the sata power connectors.

I would like to game, I would like to watercool, I would like a big SSD and a rechargeable wireless mouse to game to go along with my Dinovo Edge.

So where would you spend the money and why because I can't make my mind up.

Idleman · 10 Jan 2013 at 17:50

Are you looking to keep the case?

Mitzy · 10 Jan 2013 at 18:09

Idleman said:
Are you looking to keep the case?

Yes, due to location constraints I couldn't consider anything else at the moment.

hugobosslives · 10 Jan 2013 at 18:20

CPU and Mobo are fine.

For graphics get a 7950 for 250 quid.

New 700ish bronze watt psu. £80

A Samsung 840 pro 256 GB ssd for boot drive and current games plus programs £150

For watercooling what are you looking at? Custom loop or something like a cosair H100i £100

Add in the mouse for 40ish quid and you are looking at 630ish quid give or take. Main difference in performance you will see if the ssd (in windows) and then for obvious reasons the 7950 will smoke the onboard.

Mitzy · 10 Jan 2013 at 18:36

hugobosslives said:
CPU and Mobo are fine.

For graphics get a 7950 for 250 quid.

New 700ish bronze watt psu. £80

A Samsung 840 pro 256 GB ssd for boot drive and current games plus programs £150

For watercooling what are you looking at? Custom loop or something like a cosair H100i £100

Add in the mouse for 40ish quid and you are looking at 630ish quid give or take. Main difference in performance you will see if the ssd (in windows) and then for obvious reasons the 7950 will smoke the onboard.

Nice start, thank you.

See this is what I'm talking about, leave me alone on OCUK and I'm looking at 2x512 SSD's one for main the other for filehistory

PSU I was looking at £150

All in one watercooling wouldn't work for me with the case. For a start I would need to mount the RAD externally.

What recharagble wireless mouse were you looking at for £40, would want a dock of some sort with it.

Also if you think I'm being too demanding with the budget then by all means drop stuff out

Idleman · 10 Jan 2013 at 19:00

To save money, you could get in touch with Corsair and see if they can replace your Pcie cables, worth a try.
Mouse does`nt have a dock, but you can plug into the mobo to charge, providing your mobo has a USB port.
Unless your are thinking of xfire, a 500W Psu will be fine.
Also check your case to make sure the cooler will fit, rad and fan is just over 60mm thick. Can`t tell how much clearance you have in the case or if it willl interfere with anything.

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) £239.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD256BW) £209.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1155 / LGA1156 / LGA1366 / LGA2011/ AM2 / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £76.98
1 x Silverstone Strider Plus 500W Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (SST-ST50F-P) £67.99
1 x Logitech G700 Wireless Gaming Mouse (910-001759) £62.99
Total : £669.34 (includes shipping : £9.50).

Mitzy · 10 Jan 2013 at 19:37

Idleman

Corsair sell PCI-e cables $7.99 each + $15.99 shipping so would be looking at the guts of £20ish rather than a full PSU.

Say we drop the PSU and watercooler from the spec, hold on the GFX as it looks good. What would you do now?

Idleman · 10 Jan 2013 at 20:56

Mitzy said:
Idleman

Corsair sell PCI-e cables $7.99 each + $15.99 shipping so would be looking at the guts of £20ish rather than a full PSU.

Say we drop the PSU and watercooler from the spec, hold on the GFX as it looks good. What would you do now?

Added an aircooler. Still not sure on which mouse, the logitech looks good if as said earlier, your mobo has a USB port. Other than that, I don`t see what else you can add.

YOUR BASKET
1 x his hd 7950 iceq boost 3072mb gddr5 pci-express graphics card (h795qc3g2m) £239.99
1 x samsung 256gb ssd 840 pro sata 6gb/s basic - (mz-7pd256bw) £209.99
1 x noctua nh-u9b se2 cpu cooler (socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / am2 / am2+ / am3 / fm1 / fm2) £40
total : £501.37 (includes shipping : £9.50).

here is a good review for the cooler.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/noctua/nh-u9b_se2/6.html