One of those "spec me" threads

Substance · 31 Oct 2015 at 19:46

Hi,

My pc is getting old now and there are a few games I can't play on reasonable settings any more so I am looking to upgrade,

I am currently using :-

CPU, AMD Phenom II X4 955
MOBO, MSI 870A-G54
RAM, 2X4GB Corsair pc10700
GPU, AMD Radeon 6950
PSU, Corsair HX 520W
SSD, Corsair Force3 240GB
HDD, 2TB Samsung F1

Everything else such as OS, optical drives, monitors, input devices etc I want to keep as they are all quite new,

Ideally I would like to reuse anything from my old build eg.(SSD, HDD) but I will replace if it's worth it.

I have no preference between manufacturers, I will go with whichever offers the most value.

Thanks in advance for your help.

*edit* forgot to mention, I would like to stay within around £600

stulid · 31 Oct 2015 at 20:46

Yo, what case are you using?

I see that the board you have has an IDE port on it, are any of your optical drives IDE?

Substance · 31 Oct 2015 at 23:01

stulid said:
Yo, what case are you using?

I see that the board you have has an IDE port on it, are any of your optical drives IDE?

Howdy, Thanks for the reply,

It's not the best case, a cheap coolermaster ATX thing I got a while back, can't find the model anywhere.

As for the IDE port, I have never used it, I have all sata drives.

Thanks

stulid · 31 Oct 2015 at 23:18

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£12 Saving**= £245.98
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £52.99
1 x XFX Radeon R9 390 "DD Black Edition" 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9-390P-8DB6)= £239.99
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black= £39.95

Total: £591.21
(includes shipping: £12.30)

Re use your RAM.

The card will fit if you take the middle HDD cage out, leaving 3 x 3.5" bays and 5.25" in the top.

New PSU as the HX520 is x amount of years old.