Need to replace my 7 year old mobo/CPU bundle

norfykev

norfykev

norfykev

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Hi, I hope this is the right place to post this. I'm not a regular on this forum and I'm afraid I only really use it when I have problems. If this is not the right place for my post, feel free to move it.

For a major birthday, back in 2010 I got a shiny new Asus P6X58D-E Skt 1366/Intel Core i7930 2.80 GHz clocked to 4.00 GHz by OcUK with 3 x 2Gb DDR3 RAM @ 1600MHz. Over the last few years, the clock started to fail and I now run it at standard speeds. However, I think the SATA 6Gb chip has now also failed so my SATA drives are now connected to the regular SATA 3Gb connectors and the difference is noticeable. My PC is running at a snails pace now and I think it's just feeling very tired and I need an upgrade.

It's been a while since I did a major upgrade and I don't want to spend thousands. I'm hoping that most of my existing components will fit a new setup. I have a 120Gb SATA 6Gb SSD and a 1Tb SATA 6Gb HDD. I use onboard sound and have a dual monitor setup. My graphics card is a PCI-e 2.0 GeForce GTX 750Ti, not sure how much memory it has. The one component that I'm not sure if it's up to a modern day motherboard setups is my PSU. I have an OCZ ModXStream 700W Modular PSU, but no idea if that's either compatible with today's systems or man enough for them.

As I said, I'm not really much of a gamer these days but I like a fast PC. I'm looking for a bit of advice on a decent mobo / CPU / RAM bundle that will give me a decent setup but not for stupid money. I prefer Intel but am a bit out of touch with what's worth getting these days. I will also take all advice about what, if anything else I need to consider upgrading, i.e. the PSU. If I can avoid it though, I'd rather do that and save a bit of money.

All replies much appreciated.

Thanks,

Kev
 
To be honest my 3rd gen i5 has everything I could really need for a fraction of the price of new.
CPUs seem to improve in an evolutionary sense these days. The new gen may be 5-10% faster than last gen for example.

The only thing my rig is lacking is an M2 SSD slot. Off the top of my head 6th gen onwards can (but don't assume they have it as all don't) support the M2 SSD.
I'd buy something like that from the Member's Market (I see you are a new member and you need 250 posts plus being a member for a few months) or another used website.
 
Hi Capodecina, I'm not a new member but I don't come on very often. I bought my first OcUK setup probably 15 to 20 yeara ago. It was an AMD K1 1GHz I think? Massive oblong chip!! I just go a few years between needing to post and I think I lose my history. I don't even know what an M2 SSD slot is although I've read about it a few times?
 
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Hi Capodecina, I'm not a new member but I don't come on very often. I bought my first OcUK setup probably 15 to 20 yeara ago. It was an AMD K1 1GHz I think? Massive oblong chip!! I just go a few years between needing to post and I think I lose my history. I don't even know what an M2 SSD slot is although I've read about it a few times?
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What is your budget?
 
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I guess I'd be willing to spend about £500. I'm hopeful I can get a pretty decent bundle for that, unless I do need to upgrade my PSU too. I currently have an OCZ ModXStream 700W Modular PSU.
 
norfykev said:
I guess I'd be willing to spend about £500. I'm hopeful I can get a pretty decent bundle for that, unless I do need to upgrade my PSU too.
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I would recommend either Ryzen 1600 or 1700 for that budget:


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £687.35 (includes shipping: £10.50)



Can save money on the motherboard, but you would lose USB-C and other features.

Could also save money on cheaper RAM, such as:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £158.69 (includes shipping: £8.70)
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Although Ryzen is quite sensative to certain types of RAM, and also benefits a lot from higher mhz and lower latency.




You could also buy one of the slightly more expensive ASUS Ryzen bundles, as you get 3 free games, additional PCI lanes and more power-phases for overclocking.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £380.48 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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norfykev said:
Thanks Southernorth. Would my existing PSU work with either or both of those setups?
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It probably would work fine, but if it was me I would replace it. It's well out of warranty now, and was a fairly basic unit to begin with.

Replacing everything for around £500:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £505.95 (includes shipping: £11.10)


Could save £40 more with cheaper 3000mhz RAM.​
 
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So, a modern 450W is better than my older 700W PSU? The website for mine says it's 86% efficient so it's an 80 plus but was just sold before the certification came in.
 
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So, a modern 450W is better than my older 700W PSU? The website for mine says it's 86% efficient so it's an 80 plus but was just sold before the certification came in.
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Just looking at the specs of your PC, a 750ti barely uses any power and Ryzen is quite power efficient. If you intended to upgrade the GPU to like a GTX 1080 or higher then you would want a 550w PSU, 750w is a bit excessive. Like I said earlier, your old PSU would probably work absolutely fine, I would just be slightly concerned with how far out of warranty it is now.
 
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