PC upgrade £1000 area

purpleshadez · 29 Apr 2013 at 17:45

i am looking in to building new PC, but as just got new Tower and HDD (not SSD yet) so what would you people think would be good set up for a duel screen (yes play games on both at same time)

So have about £1000 to get

CPU - and water block
Motherboard
nivida Card
RAM

Thanks in advance.

Bacon? · 29 Apr 2013 at 17:46

Any reason specifically for the Nvidia card? They are more expensive for the same performance.

Also your tower case im assuming it supports full size ATX mobos?

One more thing

Do you already have a PSU?

purpleshadez · 29 Apr 2013 at 17:59

i just presumed that would work with the games slightly better, as its there logo that comes up most the time ---- Yeah a noob answer

The tower is a Coolermaster Silencio (so a mid tower)with Coolermaster Silent Pro PSU

Bacon? · 29 Apr 2013 at 18:03

Make and model?

I'll have a go speccing one up.

honosuseri · 29 Apr 2013 at 18:07

The new Intel socket Haswell is due on the 4th of June. Perhaps you'd like to wait?

purpleshadez · 29 Apr 2013 at 18:11

Don't mind waiting a few months, but PC i have is starting to feel the strain.. even playing games i have to perma keep graphics down to a lowest settings, and not even going to trying to play something like assassin creed 3 out of fear of whole thing screaming and melting in seconds

whats the benefits of the Haswell to a I7 3770k (which was looking at)

honosuseri · 29 Apr 2013 at 18:35

Lower power consumption a much better IGP and a little more ooompf than Ivy. Anyone who owns Sandy or Ivy CPUs already, I doubt they will be too bothered but as you want to drop £1K on parts you might be a bit miffed if we hadn't told you about the new socket as it's not far away now.

Ivy gets slated for the use of poor thermal compound between the core and the metal shim on the CPU which causes the temps to be higher than they should have been (sandy runs cooler). Maybe Intel will have learned a lesson and not repeat this with Haswell.

olivier renault · 29 Apr 2013 at 18:42

Depends what CPU you have, but you can start with a new GPU, then wait for Haswell. Or I can recommend a 2700K if you find a deal, I've got mine for £210 and well, it's a beast.

Haswell may push down the pricing of the whole range, or not. Best wait and see!

purpleshadez · 29 Apr 2013 at 19:13

so recommended to wait till june for Haswell, but what would you recommend and from what i have seen is prob going to be around same price of the 3770k ($327 -£211 ish) is at the moment.. and would i be best waiting till i got the chip before choosing the motherboard or is there one you would reccomend picking up if i see it in sale

for the rest as in RAM 1866mhz or 1600mhz etc

and don't forget graphic card, AMD or Nivida..

Ksanti · 29 Apr 2013 at 19:36

In a 1k build I'd say spend about £300 on GPU, so what I'd do is wait until a deal comes along with a AMD 7970 at or under £300 and hop on that. Assuming you have a desktop with a moderately capable PSU, that should more than take care of your initial strained problems, though it'll be bottlenecked heavily by your current system. Then when Haswell comes out you can make a decision on the rest of the system.

honosuseri · 29 Apr 2013 at 19:36

purpleshadez said:
so recommended to wait till june for Haswell, but what would you recommend and from what i have seen is prob going to be around same price of the 3770k ($327 -£211 ish) is at the moment.. and would i be best waiting till i got the chip before choosing the motherboard or is there one you would reccomend picking up if i see it in sale

for the rest as in RAM 1866mhz or 1600mhz etc

and don't forget graphic card, AMD or Nivida..

Haswell is a new socket (1150), so there will be new Z series mobos to accomodate the new CPUs as they won't fit the current Z77 mobos (socket 1155).

olivier renault · 29 Apr 2013 at 19:42

purpleshadez said:
so recommended to wait till june for Haswell, but what would you recommend and from what i have seen is prob going to be around same price of the 3770k ($327 -£211 ish) is at the moment.. and would i be best waiting till i got the chip before choosing the motherboard or is there one you would reccomend picking up if i see it in sale

for the rest as in RAM 1866mhz or 1600mhz etc

and don't forget graphic card, AMD or Nivida..

Right now, a 3770K / 2700K, a decent Z77 motherboard (£100-£130), 8GB PC12800 RAM, a decent cooler (£30 will do), a good quality 550W PSU (£65-£70), a good case (£50-£100), a SSD for OS (128GB, £80), a hard drive (1TB), a good GPU (7950 / 7970 / GTX670) and that whole should be around £1000. Depending if you need a OS, display, ect... you may need to revise that (no SSD, cheaper motherboard / i5 CPU, limited to £250 HD7950...).

Haswell would be around that, if a little bit more expensive than the Ivy counterpart.

Recommendation, buy new if you can, £1000 will be enough for a good spec, and wait for Haswell to see if you can get better deals, or if Haswell delivers better value for money. AMD GPUs are better value price / performance, I wouldn't go below a GTX670 if you want to go NVIDIA. Since you're speaking in $$$, you will have more for your money since we always get buggered by the exchange rate / taxes.

purpleshadez · 29 Apr 2013 at 22:51

well sounds like i'll wait for 4-5 weeks (just been told that being released day earlier now on 3rd june) to get the Haswell CPU leaving about £700 ($1084, give or take a few $$$ but close enough to plan) for CPU cooler, RAM, GPU and mobo

thanks again for all info guys