i3 Upgrade Time. Need help with Spec

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Looking to upgrade my budget i3 4130 as its getting slow and i need to downsize my huge tower as im moving so want less clutter.

This is the spec i have come up with:

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Its coming out as £1,362 which is way way too much for what im wanting.
I need to get this down to £1,000 if possible.

My main use of the PC is surfacing, consuming media, using it as a Plex Media Server, odd bit of AutoCAD every week for several hours and general use. I do not play games.

I will be reusing my Dell 27" 1440p monitor.

Any help to get this price down would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
 
The wrath spire cooler is excellent that comes with the 1600, a b350 chipset motherboard will do you fine. Would go for faster ram 3000mhz +

Not sure about the hard drive so check.


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £872.04 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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mickyflinn said:
The wrath spire cooler is excellent that comes with the 1600, a b350 chipset motherboard will do you fine. Would go for faster ram 3000mhz +

Not sure about the hard drive so check.
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Thank you. That is a lot better for pricing and budget!!
Is the included CPU cooler nice and quiet?
Seagate drives better than the WD Red? I've had Seagates in the past and always had issues.
 
AlphaDawg said:
Can't you just throw your mobo into a smaller case and buy a 4790K?
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I could but then i would only need to upgrade in the future as my mobo is from 2013 (MSI B85-G43).
The CPU feels sluggish when using AutoCAD so i might aswell future proof myself for another couple of years now
 
photoshop said:
I could but then i would only need to upgrade in the future as my mobo is from 2013 (MSI B85-G43).
The CPU feels sluggish when using AutoCAD so i might aswell future proof myself for another couple of years now
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Yeah I guess that's a good enough reason to upgrade :) The 4790K in my opinion was a gem of a processor though and you'd easily get another 2/3 years out of it. Especially with it being a good overclocker. Just a suggestion as Ryzen has a few teething problems that will get ironed out soon if you were to hold fire.
 
a little overbudget, but in return, a 1700 8c16t cpu, 32gb ram
specced in a gt1030 for the cuda cores
16gb ram is only marginally cheaper, so getting 32gb should be a no-brainer if you do CAD work

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,138.08 (includes shipping: £13.20)
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tamzzy said:
a little overbudget, but in return, a 1700 8c16t cpu, 32gb ram
specced in a gt1030 for the cuda cores
16gb ram is only marginally cheaper, so getting 32gb should be a no-brainer if you do CAD work

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,138.08 (includes shipping: £13.20)
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A little over budget and with only 6Tb HDD
 
photoshop said:
A little over budget and with only 6Tb HDD
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i guess you can drop the 500gb ssd to a 250gb ssd and get a 8tb hdd (still be slightly overbudget) but i suspect if you're processing files this large, you'll probably be better off with a larger scratchpad in the 500gb ssd
 
I'd go a different way with this with regards to storage, a single large drive is a disaster waiting for the most inconvenient time to happen, the cheapest way to get 8tb of storage with a some redundancy would be with 4 x 4tb drives in RAID 10:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,094.03 (includes shipping: £12.30)
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TBH theres probably a better choice of RAM to be had, but I'm sure someone could advise on that.
 
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