motherboard and processor

frampi

frampi

frampi

Associate
Joined
7 Sep 2011
Posts
41
Hey

So i was looking at upgrades a while a go and had a few in mind as to what i was going to go for. Unfortunately after just moving house money is a wee bit tight atm.

My current system is

ATI Radeon HD 6870

Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 650W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply

Current processor is a AMD phenom II x4 920 processor 2.8 GHz
With DDR2 6 GB ram

I did post a month or 2 ago and liked the options that were posted however with the house move had to spend money where i hadn't really planned to.

At the moment i can probably stretch to about 300 pounds. Is that viable to get any sort of noticeable improvement or should i be looking to wait and then splash out more when i get the cash available which may be a fair wee while away.

I am not looking for absolute top spec gaming here just enough to keep playing recent stuff is enough for me at the moment.

cheers :D
 
Hi,

For the budget you have i would just hold tight until you can upgrade fully. You could possibly go x6 phenom second hand route , but again its spending cash on an old tech system. I would prefer myself to go over to a complete new 1150 or AM3+ platform when funds are better.
 
Looked at the options and for 300£ you can get a Piledriver 8320 cpu, Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 motherboard and 8gb ram from TeamGroup, also some cheaper heatsink. Quite an upgrade I'd say and would open some future options. Sli / Xfire etc.
You can save up for gpu later, 270x would let you have playable fps in most games and they start at around 150£ at OCuk.
 
id say these ram are slightly better
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-044-TG&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-045-TG&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-043-TG&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517
and as for cpu i would put an after market cooler on as the standard one is loud and crap basically...
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-035-CM&groupid=701&catid=2330 can stick another 120 on the other side and run push pull if you like
or this one is cheaper
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-001-RT&groupid=701&catid=2330 but not sure if you can another fan on

somone will most likely spec another cheaper mobo if you dont want to go xfire
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-SLI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £14.99
Total : £304.57 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Never saw the need for RAM... :( - Can you stretch the extra £50, selling your old stuff?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-SLI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £14.99
Total : £360.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
My mistake probably should have put it in the title that Ram was needed too.

At the risk of opening a huge can of worms, the i5 over the AMD worth spending the bit extra?

Overclocking is not something i have explored an awful lot as frankly id never really had the kit capable of it. How do these stand up?

thanks for the help as always makes things massively easier :)
 
frampi said:
So i think i am going to go ahead and order the i5 build.

The ram that was linked it currently out of stock, suitable replacements that are in stock?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-053-TG&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=2429

Any good?

Or is this not compatible with i5, seems to mention i7 chipsets
Click to expand...

Should be fine, but it is a little tall and could cause some issues with CPU coolers. Something like this works well.

YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G1600HC9DC01) £59.99
Total : £63.90 (includes shipping : £3.26).

 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom