Little Upgrade...?

Well budget i probs could £30 as i got a real good deal on the mobo / ram (8GB) £30 for both!

i had the artic 7 cooler on my last machine but i dont think they are about anymore? hopefullu next friday i will have a complete running machine where i can play games at a better rate with no glitching!

really looking forward to playing trackmania again and becoming good again and playing ESL!

But keep the ideas coming forward for the cooling?

Are the corsair water cooling anygood ? i had also had a H60 on one of my last computers which i was happy with but that was on a I7 920.
 
corsair coolers are good and you can pickup some cheaper ones that a refurb units, and are usually sent back as RMA and Corsair replace the faulty component with a higher grade and do stricter testing to ensure it doesn't fail again, then repackage it as refurb, but sell it at a reduced price. I purchased a H80i from a competitor site refurbed with warranty for around £50 and lasted me for 2 years, its still going just in another build now. Had really good temps and OC on an FX 6300 @ 4.5Ghz at around 57c on load!

But air coolers are cheaper and do run equally as well if you get the right model with good fans, noctua makes an excellent air cooler for instance. The problem in my eyes is they can be fairly noisy and very heavy and large which will put strain on your motherboard and can potentially bend the circuitry. Really worst case scenario, but always plan for the worst right? Hence why I always go liquid cooling now. I now use full custom loops, but when building machines for friends and clients I always suggest AIO water coolers as they are a cheap alternative and simple to install and maintain.
 
bioshockeruk said:
corsair coolers are good and you can pickup some cheaper ones that a refurb units, and are usually sent back as RMA and Corsair replace the faulty component with a higher grade and do stricter testing to ensure it doesn't fail again, then repackage it as refurb, but sell it at a reduced price. I purchased a H80i from a competitor site refurbed with warranty for around £50 and lasted me for 2 years, its still going just in another build now. Had really good temps and OC on an FX 6300 @ 4.5Ghz at around 57c on load!

But air coolers are cheaper and do run equally as well if you get the right model with good fans, noctua makes an excellent air cooler for instance. The problem in my eyes is they can be fairly noisy and very heavy and large which will put strain on your motherboard and can potentially bend the circuitry. Really worst case scenario, but always plan for the worst right? Hence why I always go liquid cooling now. I now use full custom loops, but when building machines for friends and clients I always suggest AIO water coolers as they are a cheap alternative and simple to install and maintain.
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Thanks for that !!

What would be the best one? as i dont wanna put strain on the board!

i cant find a cpu cooler for a AM3+ socket anyways so will any others? like a normal AM3?
 
AM3+ & AM3 sockets are essentially the same thing, the difference being the electronic wizardry behind the socket allowing for modern CPU's but for actual fittings wise any AM3 cooler will fit right onto an AM3+ socket.
 
Thanks very much!

Im undecided now as i have been looking around the OCUK website and found this...


**B Grade** MSI H97 PC Mate Intel H97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX (MB-273-MS)
£40

Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00C
£32

Intel Core i3-4170 3.70GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
£86

Total of £158

i dont know what to do ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! HELP ?
 
that would be a nice wee system. I would be tempted by that as its newer plus as said above you have an upgrade route.
the h97 boards wont allow for overclocking but the i3 is locked so this wouldnt affect you unless you upgraded the cpu down the line to an unlocked one
 
Im running a Corsair H80i on my overclocked 4690k @ 4.5Ghz and I can say im happy with it.
I previously had it on my old fx8350 which was also overclocked and it kept the temps nice and gave me no worries.

Im hoping to upgrade to a fractical design kelvin cooler soon but will put my H80i back onto the 8350 again I trust it to do its job.
 
Thanks for all your help!

i have still chose the FX4300 as i had the board / ram bought so i will use this option and get it OC to run a little faster so will last me a year or so then maybe look at upgrading to intel at some point in the future...

So my machine will be

FX4300
Gigabyte 78lmt board
8GB Hyper Savage Ram 1600 as it says it will only support this (so does that mean the 2400ghz wont work?)
1TB Hdd
60GB SSD
600W PSU
GTX 660 1.5GB Gfx card

So happy with that and will run all the games i want with ease...
 
sneaker said:
Hello All,

I currently have a

Intel E7500 @ 2.93GHZ
4GB DDR2 Ram
Gigabyte GA-945GCM-S2L motherboard

I have about £130 - £150 to spend on new mobo, cpu and ram? (is this possible for that price)

I only play one game which is Trackmania 2 and no others so it hasnt got to be real top spec!

I currently have aGTX 660 1.5GB card aswell!

Any suggestions will be awesome

Regards
Callum
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My advice is sell the mobo , cpu and ram you might get £30 for it , save up for a month because your about £150 shy of affording this little bundle

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/8pack-approved-intel-core-i5-6400-4.4ghz-overclocked-quad-core-gaming-bundle-bu-050-as.html

Cheers
 
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