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Hi
I currently have a Gigabyte H61M-HD2 motherboard with just a basic Celeron CPU in it as the system has only been really used for xbmc. Ive decided however to invest a bit of cash in and upgrade the cpu and add in a graphics card.
Budget for all is around £400 and I was thinking this for the cpu
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-404-IN
and that will leave me with the scope to add in a new graphics card for around £200-£230 (Which I'm going to post in the graphics card section for advice). I'm not going to use the system for anything like video editing or anything. I would maybe like to play Battlefield 4 and a few other games. It will leave me scope to overclock the cpu and upgrade the cooling system on it if I need to overclock but I don't think I will need to overclock at first and from what I have read the stock fan is adequate for the cpu
Rest of my current system is
2x4GB DDR3 Ram (I am planning on upgrading to 16GB in a couple of months)
64GB SSD Hard Drive
3TB Sata Hard Drive
What do people think of the cpu or any advice for an alternative would be grateful for around the same price.
I currently have a Gigabyte H61M-HD2 motherboard with just a basic Celeron CPU in it as the system has only been really used for xbmc. Ive decided however to invest a bit of cash in and upgrade the cpu and add in a graphics card.
Budget for all is around £400 and I was thinking this for the cpu
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-404-IN
and that will leave me with the scope to add in a new graphics card for around £200-£230 (Which I'm going to post in the graphics card section for advice). I'm not going to use the system for anything like video editing or anything. I would maybe like to play Battlefield 4 and a few other games. It will leave me scope to overclock the cpu and upgrade the cooling system on it if I need to overclock but I don't think I will need to overclock at first and from what I have read the stock fan is adequate for the cpu
Rest of my current system is
2x4GB DDR3 Ram (I am planning on upgrading to 16GB in a couple of months)
64GB SSD Hard Drive
3TB Sata Hard Drive
What do people think of the cpu or any advice for an alternative would be grateful for around the same price.