Looking at a bit of an upgrade

rharris118

rharris118

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Hi, I'm looking for a bit of an upgrade. I don't do any heavy gaming or anything too intensive.

My budget is as small as possible basically, and because of that I've done some shopping about. I've been looking at the following;

i5 4670k £146.07
Gigabyte GA-Z87X-OC £116.85
Team Vulcan 8GB 1600 £47.86
Total: £310.78 and free shipping.

My current GPU HD7790 is sufficient for me for now but will be looking at either upgrading it or going crossfire later down the line.

I'm just wondering if anybody had any better suggestions to those parts for that sort of price? Ideally I'd like to buy from OCUK as I've never purchased from them before, and feel I should seen as I use their forum a lot!

Oh and my current system is;
Asrock G31m-s
E8500
4GB of RAM

Its lasted me the last 5+ years I believe so has served me well.
 
The new cpu is only few pounds extra CPU and Motherboundle, I can only talk from my experiance as to buying from ocuk, item always arived on time and well packed, never had to deal with returns department yet :-), what case you fitting this in as if it on of the manufacture cases like Hp ect. you may find you need micro atx motherboard. also not sure why would you need i5 k series processor if you don't game or not doing nothing special.
 
+1 to devil's canyon and z97, its a small price diffrence and you get a bunch more features like m2 (depends on mobo), which will make it last longer w/o upgrading
 
ade555 said:
The new cpu is only few pounds extra CPU and Motherboundle, I can only talk from my experiance as to buying from ocuk, item always arived on time and well packed, never had to deal with returns department yet :-), what case you fitting this in as if it on of the manufacture cases like Hp ect. you may find you need micro atx motherboard. also not sure why would you need i5 k series processor if you don't game or not doing nothing special.
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Hi the bundles certainly the better option for just the few extra quid. My case is an Antec Three Hundred so thats fine for my needs I believe.
I've gone for the k series as I usually overclock a little (not to extremes)

I do some gaming but I wouldn't say I play the latest and greatest. At the moment its mainly Starcraft 2 but I want the option to be able to play the latest games with decent FPS
 
Is all about money at the end of the day? If you can afford the new k series cpu with motherboard and 8gb mem you can't go wrong. In future upgrade you graphics cards if you decide to play more advance or should I say more hungry games.
 
Remember to put all cables in (24 pin, 8 pin CPU etc)
Make sure you handle CPU with care and slot it in the right way
Orientate the RAM the right way into the slots :)
 
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