Gaming upgrade - £800

Mullers84

Mullers84

Mullers84

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I put up a post about a month or so ago to take a look at options for my current pc as it's desperate for an upgrade. My budget has changed from the original estimate to £800 which is to also include a new monitor (have OS/keyboard/mouse)

I'm due to place an order this week so would appreciate any advice that the community has in bringing some new life to my pc!

Current set-up;

Processor - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 GO 2.40GHz Quad Core CPU Overclocked too a minimum of 3.30GHz and beyond. (8/9 x 400MHz - 1600MHz FSB)

Cooling - Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Intel approved cooler
- Arctic Silver 5 Heatsink compound professionally hand installed by our technicians

Mobo - Abit IP35-Pro Intel P35 (Socket LGA775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Memory - Award winning OCZ 4GB PC2-8500 CAS5 (2x2GB) Dual Channel Kit (Overclocked at 1000MHz+) (Note when upgrading to 4GB overclock drops to 3.25GHz on CPU)

HDD - 1000GB Samsung Spinpoint F1 32MB Cache SATA-2 Hard Drive

Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 1024MB GDDR3 AVIVO HDTV/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) DirectX 10 Graphics Cards

Disk Drive - Pioneer 115DBK 20x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black)

PSU - Corsair TX 650W Next Generation Power Supply

Thanks in advance!
 
This should be a nice upgrade.

YOUR BASKET
1 x GALAX GeForce GTX 970 OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (97NQH6DNB4UX) £269.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
Total : £571.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).

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1 x [url="http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-168-SA"]Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW)[/url] [b][COLOR="Yellow"]£99.95[/COLOR][/b]
[b]Total : [COLOR="Yellow"]£107.69[/COLOR][/b] (includes shipping : £6.45).

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this is what I'd be looking at, re-using your current HDD, ODD and case.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 780 OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-70206-10P) £229.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x AOC E2470SWDA 23.6" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x Gigabyte Z97M-D3H Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £79.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £74.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 750W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £71.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £65.99
Total : £807.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).



You could save some money by going for a smaller SSD, which should allow you grab a better cooled GPU for quiter operation and potential overclocking, or a little upgrade to a 970. PSU is probably overkill too, could easily get away with the 550w superflower thats on this week only, again saving a few quid to maybe push for an aftermarket CPU cooler, provided you're not migrating one from the old system too.
 
 
Just seen the BitFenix case is on offer this week and it has got me seriously tempted. I'm still a bit clueless part-wise, if I wanted to put the money into a new PC rather than upgrade, what could I do with around £650?
 
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