Motherboard upgrade advise please

[soyoDragon]

My last motherboard upgrade was some time ago 2010 Gigabite X58A-UD3R so she very old now, i7 950 Bloomfield 3.06ghz overclocked since 2010

id like an i7 again or maybe try one of the new AMD's next month

£500 - 700 ish for motherboard+cpu+ram

any & all advise welcomed no haters please

 

[mickyflinn]

What do you use your pc mainly for ? e.g gaming, video editing,

 

[new boy]

As above, also whats the rest of your system

 

[soyoDragon]

i7 950 Bloomfield 3.06ghz
Gigabite X58A-UD3R
12GB xms xms corsair DDR3
GTX 1070

Gaming 90% bit of video editting

 

[new boy]

My advice, wait for zen then see whats what

 

[mickyflinn]

My advice, wait for zen then see whats what

Ryzen.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

I saw 30 FPS increase going from i7 860 16GB DDR3 to i5 7600k so you'll def see a good return on your investment .
If you've liked Gigabyte then Gaming 5 wither Z270 or Ryzen's X370 chip set.

 

[danny77]

If you wanna upgrade now do it , you could always be waiting for the next release of next gen etc . Even if Zen cpu is good I don't think there be much difference in performance and pricing to intel.

For gaming and a bit of editing to go along with your 1070 i'd look at something like the following , middle of your budget and you would notice a big difference with what your running now.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £349.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3 Intel Z270 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £131.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Red (CMK16GX4M2A2400= £125.99

Total: £607.97
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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Also if you been running that set up for 6 or 7 years is the case any good, you got change from your budget for one .

 

[orbitalwalsh]

If you wanna upgrade now do it , you could always be waiting for the next release of next gen etc . Even if Zen cpu is good I don't think there be much difference in performance and pricing to intel.

For gaming and a bit of editing to go along with your 1070 i'd look at something like the following , middle of your budget and you would notice a big difference with what your running now.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £349.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3 Intel Z270 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £131.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Red (CMK16GX4M2A2400= £125.99

Total: £607.97
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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Also if you been running that set up for 6 or 7 years is the case any good, you got change from your budget for one .

slight tweak

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte Aorus GA-Z270X-Gaming K5 Intel Z270 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £172.99
• 1 x Team Group Dark 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TDKED416G3000HC16AD= £98.99

Total: £282.48
(includes shipping: £10.50)
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push the better board, not so much for dual cards but option for dual m.2 or triple NVMe using bottom PCIe slot. VRM count is a lot better to
more expensive board by £40 but 60% saving made on the ram, which is 16GB but faster speed.