Motherboard and CPU Upgrade

HomZ

HomZ

HomZ

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Hi all,

One of my mates has asked me to throw him a decent ish PC together so I have offered to use my 2500k and Asus Rampage 4 board and then upgrade my system,

I am not entirely sure what to go with, 1150 or 2011 ?

I mainly game on this PC and have recently bought a 780TI so want something that would play nice together,

Looking at 4670k or 4770k, (1150) is the 4770k worth the extra £60 ?

Alternatively its socket 2011 and im looking at 4820k or 3820

Any ideas ?

Thanks
 
What's you budget? I would probably go for the 1150 socket but the 2011 socket offers higher overclocks also Haswell-E will be out soon so I would wait for that instead of socket 2011.
 
I would honestly just grab a 2600K/2700K off of the members market. Might set you back £150 or so, then sell your 2500K on there for £100.

Total outlay would be somewhere in the region of £50 and you would have a CPU that when overclocked will give a 4770K a run for its money.
 
I don't have a budget really, I have £300 atm which will most likely just cover the cost of one of the CPU's I mentioned, Max of about £450 id say.

picking up anything else 1155 isn't an option as these bits are definitely getting used in another build, they are as good as sold atm.
 
Ah okay. Well in that case:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
Total : £369.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).



I chose the 4770K because more and more games are taking advantage of more than four threads these days, and I wouldn't want my CPU to hold back a beast of a GPU like a GTX780Ti in any instance. It also outperforms the i7 4820K (albeit marginally) and it can't really be compared to the other current socket 2011 CPU's because of the price gap.

Choice of motherboard is because the price to performance to features ratio is superb. Well worth the extra few pennies over something like a D3HP. Take a gander at that feature list: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4802

:)
 
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I can't say as I've seen that motherboard before, it must be quite new.

I haven't got any experience with EVGA motherboards. The best thing to do would probably be to read some reviews. :)

I honestly don't think it looks that great. It seems to have a very sparse featureset, and it looks like it has bits missing. It doesn't seem to offer anything more than far cheaper counterparts. The one I linked for £80 less seems to be very well kitted out in comparison. You also won't gain anything by having all those PCI-E slots either as the FTW only supports two way SLI, the same as the Sniper.

If it is the colour scheme that is putting you off and you want red/black, I'd get this. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-563-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2574 SLI support, 8 SATA ports etc. :)
 
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Ended up ordering the 4770K and the Asus Maximus VI Formula board, the extra SATA ports and the fact I got it cheap were the deal breaker for me, Will hopefully build over the weekend, thanks for the help guys!
 
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