Help and Advice on Upgrade

robocat

robocat

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Hi All,
This is my first post and after seeing all the excellent advice given on this forum I’m hoping that you can help me.
I am thinking of upgrading my present system as it is now a little long in the tooth. My budget is £700. I have selected the components which I have researched and have received good reviews.
The following is my present system and the system I would like to upgrade to:

Present System
1 x Asus P965 “Commando” gaming Motherboard Socket LGA 775, on board 7.1 Surround Sound
1 x Quad Core Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2400 MHz (9 x 267) CPU
1 x Zalman CNPS9700-LED Super Aero Cooler for CPU
2 x 2GB OCZ Reaper 800Mhz DDR2 Ram
1 x Nvidia GTS 250 1Gb Memory Graphics Card
1 x Seagate Barracuda 160Gb 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive
1 x 850W Avenge Power PSU

Upgrade System
Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58 Socket 1366 DDR3 Motherboard £149.99
Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz 8Mb Cache LGA1366, Retai... £225.00
Thermaltake CL-P0564 FRIO Intel LGA1366/1156/775/ CPU Cooler £37.59

Palit 768MB GDDR5 GeForce GTX460 VGA / DVI / HDMI ... £122.52
Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz C9 Dua... £51.99
Antec TP-650 TruePower New Series Modular 650W Pow... £66.08
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB 7200 SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache OEM £32.75

Total £685.92
All the above components are priced from Overclockers and seem to be very competitive with other dealers I have checked with.
I have two questions:
1. Do you think this is a worthwhile upgrade for the money? I welcome any suggestions as to whether you think there are better value and performing components that I have chosen.
2. What would you think is a fair price for my old components which I would like to sell after upgrade to help offset the cost of upgrade.

I look forward to your comments and would like to thank you in advance for help.

Robocat
 
robocat said:
Hi All,
This is my first post and after seeing all the excellent advice given on this forum I’m hoping that you can help me.
I am thinking of upgrading my present system as it is now a little long in the tooth. My budget is £700. I have selected the components which I have researched and have received good reviews.
The following is my present system and the system I would like to upgrade to:

Present System
1 x Asus P965 “Commando” gaming Motherboard Socket LGA 775, on board 7.1 Surround Sound
1 x Quad Core Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2400 MHz (9 x 267) CPU
1 x Zalman CNPS9700-LED Super Aero Cooler for CPU
2 x 2GB OCZ Reaper 800Mhz DDR2 Ram
1 x Nvidia GTS 250 1Gb Memory Graphics Card
1 x Seagate Barracuda 160Gb 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive
1 x 850W Avenge Power PSU

Upgrade System
Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58 Socket 1366 DDR3 Motherboard £149.99
Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz 8Mb Cache LGA1366, Retai... £225.00
Thermaltake CL-P0564 FRIO Intel LGA1366/1156/775/ CPU Cooler £37.59

Palit 768MB GDDR5 GeForce GTX460 VGA / DVI / HDMI ... £122.52
Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz C9 Dua... £51.99
Antec TP-650 TruePower New Series Modular 650W Pow... £66.08
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB 7200 SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache OEM £32.75

Total £685.92
All the above components are priced from Overclockers and seem to be very competitive with other dealers I have checked with.
I have two questions:
1. Do you think this is a worthwhile upgrade for the money? I welcome any suggestions as to whether you think there are better value and performing components that I have chosen.
2. What would you think is a fair price for my old components which I would like to sell after upgrade to help offset the cost of upgrade.

I look forward to your comments and would like to thank you in advance for help.

Robocat
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Hi Robocat, Just a bit curious as to why you need to upgrade the power supply, as it will be a smaller output power than you already have? or is the new one a better quality. or maybe, do the new motherboards have different connections for the power? I am asking as I wish to upgrade my own system in the near future too, Thanks,

Mole :)
 
Also if your going for an i7 CPU then you will be wanting Triple Channel ram (norm 6gb) or you look at going down the i5 route with 4gb of ram and use the saved cash for a betting GFX card.
 
The Antec is a superior PSU both in quality and performance than my existing one, also has all the connections I need for new mobo.
Thanks for the suggestion of going 6gb Triple channel, "never thought of that" will stretch budget.
Any thoughts on worth of my existing components value?

Thanks to everyone on for their help and advice.

BTW system used for mainly gaming, rendering and quite a bit of photoshop work.
 
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If you're mostly gaming you can probably get away with an i5 instead of an i7, it just depends on how much rendering you're doing really.... This should save you quite a bit of money :)

Nice choice of PSU though, should definitely be more than capable.

If you are going for the i7 though as others say try the 6gb triple channel :)

Would certainly say it's worth the upgrade, also if you're doing quite a bit of photoshop work, I imagine it's using up quite a bit of space, in which case it might be worth upgrading to the 1TB version (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA) as it literally is only £10 more.

kd
 
Welcome to the forum, I would suggest that you get the GTX 460 with 1GB of memory, it performs better than the 768MB and you can get the OcUK value GTX460 1GB card for £139.99.

Also, you can save £25 by getting the i7 930 for £220 rather than £245 for 950. Both are based on the same chip and as such both generally overclock to the same maximum frequency on an air cooler like the Frio
 
hello,
I was in the same boat as you a few days ago!, I went for the i5 760 and it's gr8 for gaming trust me and it's very easy to overclock the i5 to 4ghz like most of us have done!.
my set up is in my sig and i have no problem with it!, max out all my games like crysis and looks gr8! and runs smoooooth!..
 
If you will be doing a fair bit of rendering and photoshop (CPU heavy applications) I would suggest you wait until Intel "Sandy Bridge" - Intels Next generation of mainstream CPUs arrives on January 9th. These chips will be clock-for-clock faster than existing i7 CPUs and are clocked higher at stock.

Here is some more information on Sandy Bridge.
 
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