New PC Needed

[Jamin3110]

Hi Guys/Girls

I have a budget of max £600 to spend and wanted advice on what to get.
I currently have a SSD 128GB and 1TB in form of 2x500GB HDD with windows 8 operating System installed on SSD.

I do also have which is new a graphics card of Sapphire Radeon 1GB HD 7750 but aware this maybe lacking. (bought due to smaller power supply on old PC.

The PC will be used for some gaming/film watching and used for music production.

Thanks in advance for you help!

 

[stulid]

Hi and welcome.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £179.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards - £10 Cashback £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard + FREE Be Quiet! Shadow Rock Pro SR1 CPU Cooler! £107.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual CHannel Kit (PV38G213C1K) £65.99
1 x Thermaltake Smart Series 630w Modular '80Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Windowed Case - Black £59.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £656.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).




Thats what I just come up with.

Sell your 7750 and you can get £50 back probably.

I've personally used the motherboard here. It comes with a free Be quiet cooler which I have added to my cooler round-up here.

 

[honosuseri]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £185.99
1 x VTX3D HD 7870 Black Boost Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard + FREE Be Quiet! Shadow Rock Pro SR1 CPU Cooler! £107.99
1 x Thermaltake Smart Series 530w Modular '80Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £43.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £624.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).



Retail CPU has a longer warranty although granted you don't need the stock cooler thanks to the mobo being bundled with a better one. The GPU can be OC'd to match a 7950, it's worth the little extra over the 7850 and the standard 7870. The RAM is known to OC quite well but I can't guarantee what it will get up to.

As Stulid says you might as well flog off the 7750, it's not a great gaming GPU and is soundly beaten by even the 7850. I look forward to seeing what you settle on in the end

 

[stulid]

Get the RAM at the speed you want, don't rely on overclocking to get there.

 

[honosuseri]

Get the RAM at the speed you want, don't rely on overclocking to get there.

Fair comment but I gave no guarantee as to what the Ballistix RAM would clock to. It's simply cheaper to allow more cash to go into the GPU lets say. I have no problem with the OEM CPU as to be honest CPU failure is rare but having a longer warranty for a few quid more is nice.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £179.99
1 x VTX3D HD 7870 Black Boost Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard + FREE Be Quiet! Shadow Rock Pro SR1 CPU Cooler! £107.99
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U24001004G-2CI) - Blue Light £67.99
1 x Zalman Z9 USB 3.0 Midi Tower Case - Black £54.98
1 x Thermaltake Smart Series 530w Modular '80Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £664.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).



I'd really prefer the Tahiti core 7870XT over a 7850 (stulids example does have £10 cash back mind) even though the 7850 is quite a good overclocker itself. Case is personal preference but the Z9 U3 offers more kit than the Shinobi or Asgard. RAM is much faster and has LEDs too if you want to keep with the theme. There is some Team Group 2400Mhz RAM at £60 but it's quite tall with those aggressive heatspreaders.

Yes it's well over the £600 budget but you really want to recoup cashing flogging that 7750 off. Hopefully you are getting an idea of how to balance a build out by now

 

[stulid]

There is some Team Group 2400Mhz RAM at £60 but it's quite tall with those aggressive heatspreaders.

Wont fit, I'm sure of it.

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@OP


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £179.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showd (GX-100-GI) £129.95
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard + FREE Be Quiet! Shadow Rock Pro SR1 CPU Cooler! £107.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual CHannel Kit (PV38G213C1K) £65.99
1 x Thermaltake Smart Series 630w Modular '80Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Windowed Case - Black £59.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £635.98 (includes shipping : £11.75).




Using a Bgrade 7850 (still 2GB Vram) brings the spec closer to the £600 budget.