New build or upgrade?

EirePlane

EirePlane

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Evening Guys,
It's been three years since I built my PC, so it's about time I gave it some love and upgraded the beast.

My SSD failed at the beginning of the week and my HDD is probably on it's way, so they definitely need replacing
My current mobo was recalled about a month after I bought it, but I was too lazy to send it back (It's a Gigabyte P67a-UD3 if you're wondering), so that needs to go because only two of the SATA ports are working
My current GPU is a GeForce GTX 460 768MB, so that, along with my 4GB of RAM is becoming a bit of a memory bottleneck, so those will probably need replacing too.

I've had a flick through and managed to spec this up:
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but for a couple of hundred quid more, I could replace the rest AND buy a HTPC case, cooler and PSU for the old gear
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Which would you do, or is there anything better around the same price?
 
 
for a grand i'd personally build something like this

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £269.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Vapor-X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card £245.99
1 x EVGA Hadron Air Mini-ITX Case - including 500W Gold Power Supply - Black £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87N-WIFI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £86.99
1 x Avexir Core Red Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIR) £59.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
Total : £1,030.91 (includes shipping : FREE).



you said you wanted a small build so i went with mini itx, the case comes with a 500w gold rated psu if im correct but i don't know if the cooler will fit someone correct me
 
a66as said:
for a grand i'd personally build something like this

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £269.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Vapor-X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card £245.99
1 x EVGA Hadron Air Mini-ITX Case - including 500W Gold Power Supply - Black £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87N-WIFI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £86.99
1 x Avexir Core Red Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIR) £59.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
Total : £1,030.91 (includes shipping : FREE).



you said you wanted a small build so i went with mini itx, the case comes with a 500w gold rated psu if im correct but i don't know if the cooler will fit someone correct me
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Aargh, the Mini-ITX stuff is nice, but the HTPC was just going to be a full ATX machine cobbled from what's working OK in my current machine. I might be RMAing my broken SSD now though, so abandoning the old board altogether is tempting...

fowler002 said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £269.99
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Rev1.0 WindForce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £254.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper M5 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £154.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £149.99
1 x Avexir Venom Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C9 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21330904G-2CIG) - Green Light £79.99
1 x BitFenix Phenom MATX Cube Case - Midnight Black £74.95
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £62.99
Total : £1,135.98 (includes shipping : £11.75).

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Nice. Any particular reason you both went for the 280X?

Fulax said:
OP: which CPU/case/PSU are you currently using?

No; the maximum height for the Hardon is 5.5 inches.
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5.5? I'm sure I've seen bigger :P

I've currently got an i7 2600K (Sandy Bridge) / Cooler Master CM-690 II Lite / OCZ StealthXStream 2 600W so it's definitely not a slouch of a machine, but I figure if I'm changing out the motherboard, I might as well be future-proofing myself
 
I'd keep the CPU and the case, RMA the SSD, and upgrade the rest. You'd end up with a much better system. For the price of Fowler's build you'd be able to get crossfire 290s in if you really wanted.
 
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