General build advice

spatterlight · 29 Apr 2013 at 19:40

I am looking for some advice on components to refresh by current desktop. It's an old p5w64 based system and is getting long in the tooth.

A quick look at the component thread and the build guide thread looks like they are a bit out of date so I thought I'd post a separate thread to try and gather a kitlist.

I'm looking at a mid-range machine and don't need extreme graphics or fancy wifi features.

So a quick look over seemed to point at Ivy bridge 1155, probably i5, and a z77 board. some PCI SSD and a decent cooler. ram to fill slots.

That said it's been so long since I looked I'm not sure what I'm looking at anymore. Gone are the days when the OC guys sold AMD cpu's with little silver lines on them hardclocking the chip. So I'd appreciate some component advice.

Doomedspeed · 29 Apr 2013 at 19:43

Welcome,

Firstly, what is the Rig going to be for? Gaming? Wathcing films? Video Rendering?

What is your budget? A budget is very important..

We are happy to help.

honosuseri · 29 Apr 2013 at 19:45

Intels new socket (1150) Haswell is due around 4th June.

Maybe you would like to wait a while? By all means you can kill time looking at cases you like and GPUs,SSDs. It's the mobo and CPU that will need looking at once Haswell lands.

spatterlight · 29 Apr 2013 at 19:53

Thanks for the quick reply.
I use the unit as the main family pc, all the other stuff goes on laptops or tablets. Data is on a server, so it isn't needed for storage but i do do some image tidying for my photo's from raw etc. Some video, but it's not like i'm doing it every day, play games and watch some films as well as some basic office style tasks.

I enjoy games but I don't need extreme graphics performance as I'm way slower than current system. It's just flaky since I went win7 a year or so ago and I'm fed up with the unreliabilty. So I decided to bite the bullet and gut it.

budget is between 500-1000, I could probably do with new peripherals as well. so I'd be looking for almost a complete system for the budget.

I do have 2x34gb of PCI ssd and a 560ti grpahics card in it but not sure if they old hat now etc.

Doomedspeed · 29 Apr 2013 at 20:24

The 560ti will be spot on.. Great little card, what are the read/writes on your SSD's like?

spatterlight · 29 Apr 2013 at 20:29

no idea tbh, most of my issues seem to be because win 7 doesn't like my mobo. They are OCZ units, revo I think they were called. Sorry to be so short on info.

spatterlight · 30 Apr 2013 at 16:57

However, is there any general componet advice? I'm reduced to scanning guys signatures at the moment to see what builds they have.

Understand theres a new fab coming out in June, but i wanted to build over the bank holiday so....

Any tips appreciated

honosuseri · 30 Apr 2013 at 17:41

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1 x Sapphire HD 7950 Boost 3072MB PCI-Express Graphics Card (11196-19-20G) £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £189.95
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD250BW) ** Cash Back Promo ** £134.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £85.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £73.99
1 x XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £54.98
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black £49.99
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £47.99
1 x Logitech G500 5700DPI Gaming Mouse (910-001262) £36.98
1 x Microsoft SideWinder X4 Gaming Keyboard - Retail (JQD-00006) £32.99
1 x Thermalright Macho 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £29.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,008.32 (includes shipping : £11.25).

Modular PSU would be nice but the popular choices are out of stock. The 560Ti isn't a bad card, you could well make do with it till BF4 is released in oct and it will be bundled with the new AMD GPUs. Just gives you an idea of whats possible to the budget, maybe you'd like a better monitor now instead of the 7950 GPU?

spatterlight · 30 Apr 2013 at 19:54

looks really good. My current case is a coolermaster alumininium jobbie, ATX, and the PSU is one of those clippy ones? you plug the cables into the base block. Is that modular? I was hoping to reuse them but at 100 quid it may be false economy.

Given I'm a casual gamer could I use a wireless mouse? I currently have a di novo mouse and keyboard set (with little separate number pad) and find the wireless mouse very convienient. They a bit old now so I'm up for changing them but don't fancy wired.

i'll make do with the GPU till that new one pops up later this year, thanks for the advice