New case / mobo / cpu / ram advice

PESolution · 20 Apr 2016 at 13:46

Hi All,

In advance of the pascal cards which are to be shortly released, I'm going to re-build the majority of my system while keeping my 960gb SSD, GTX970, and possibly PSU.

The PSU is a Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 750W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXV2UK) which I bough in September 2011. It seems to work absolutely fine and so not sure if I should bother changing it out for something more modern?

So I guess what I really need advice on it whats the best motherboard, cpu (and cooler), ram combination out there right now. Happy to spend around the £1000 mark if recommended? Also a new case to replace the Cosair Obsidian 650D would be nice.

Thanks,

PESolution · 20 Apr 2016 at 13:50

for info my current build is something like:

i7 2700k @ 4.4/4.6
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 750W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXV2UK)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9)
GALAX GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent "Infinity Black Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB SSD
3 x Samsung S27a950D 120hz monitors (often gaming in nvidia surround)

stulid · 20 Apr 2016 at 14:25

Can't honestly see the need to upgrade that CPU etc.

PESolution · 20 Apr 2016 at 14:34

will the pascal xx80 card's not be bottlenecked do you not think? perhaps ill get the gpu first and then see?

Kurgen · 20 Apr 2016 at 15:13

I would wait and see. buy a Pascal card first and then upgrade if needed

Marcoloves360 · 20 Apr 2016 at 19:02

You will be better wait till the end of the year and make all new PC, new GPUs, new AMD CPUs, if you decide go with Intel probably will be cheaper than now.