New build

[Mp4]

Well after my psu going boom I've decided to upgrade since 2008 ...

£500 or lower! max I use my pc mainly for photography these days with some gaming so want a super duper one to crunch photos editing, Photoshop etc.

My old pic

Motherboard
Asus: p5e3 pro
Psu: Enermax Infinity 720w
Cpu:Q6600
Gfx Radeon 5870

 

[ExRayTed]

Can you reuse anything? Case or storage?

 

[Mp4]

Probably case and old 700GB HDD (sata)

 

[ExRayTed]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Asus H110M-A Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £52.99
• 1 x Team Group Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD416GM2400HC16D= £44.99
• 1 x Super Flower Leadex GOLD 550W Fully Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply - Black= £71.99
• 1 x Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (SHFS37A/240G)= £49.99
• 1 x Intel Core i3-6100 3.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £99.95
• 1 x Asus GeForce GTX 960 TURBO OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £158.99

Total: £478.90
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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If you wanted a bit more VRAM then get a 4gb variant of the GPU. If you prefer AMD then an R9 380 would be a decent equivalent to the GTX960

 

[TacticalFish]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Asus H110M-A Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £52.99
• 1 x Team Group Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD416GM2400HC16D= £44.99
• 1 x Super Flower Leadex GOLD 550W Fully Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply - Black= £71.99
• 1 x Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (SHFS37A/240G)= £49.99
• 1 x Intel Core i3-6100 3.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £99.95
• 1 x Asus GeForce GTX 960 TURBO OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £158.99

Total: £478.90
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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If you wanted a bit more VRAM then get a 4gb variant of the GPU. If you prefer AMD then an R9 380 would be a decent equivalent to the GTX960

What kind of gaming could you do on this, out of interest?

 

[ExRayTed]

Plenty at medium/high settings at 1080p. The GPU suffers from only 2gb VRAM though, so if it's more gaming you're after I'd go with a 4gb variety of either the 960 or R9 380

 

[TacticalFish]

Plenty at medium/high settings at 1080p. The GPU suffers from only 2gb VRAM though, so if it's more gaming you're after I'd go with a 4gb variety of either the 960 or R9 380

Interesting, you don't think the i3 might bottleneck some games with only 2 cores? I'm asking as I'm due an upgrade myself soon, and the main thing I want to save money on is the CPU (intend to get a Z170 though so I can upgrade to something more meaty in the future).

 

[ExRayTed]

Nope. It's a dual core with hyperthreading and makes a very capable budget gaming chip. The OP wanted Photoshop and editing performance though - if you want a gaming machine get a thread up and we'll help