PC upgrade advice

[Luckystrike123]

Hello OCUK,

My PC is approaching 4 years old and it is starting to show it's age so I'd like to update it so that it is a bit more relevant. The current specs are;

MSI Z68A-G43-G3 Intel Z68
MSI GeForce GTX 570 OC (1280MB)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge)
OCZ Z-Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply
G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB 1600MHz
2x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s
OS Windows Vista
A knacked Antec Case
Cooler: Unknown but big.

I'd like to salvage as much as possible as I'm going to uni next month and I'd like to keep the costs down.

I need a new case and would like to get windows 10. I have been unable to OC the 2500k even using the clocking utility (plus 1mhz resulted in crashing) and recently I have experienced a few blue screens and I don't know the cause.

The PC is used for document processing and playing games at 1080p. Would the following parts be a good choice?


Asus GeForce GTX 970 TURBO OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £245.99

Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD
£79.99

Aerocool Aero 1000 Midi Tower Case - White
£54.95

Crucial BX100 120GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive
£46.99

Samsung SH-118CB/BEBE SATA 18x DVD-ROM (Black)
£13.99

Total cost £456.

 

[varkanoid]

Windows 10 - you would be better off getting a cheap Windows 7/8.1 upgrade and upgrade vista then upgrade to Win 10 might save a bit of money if you can do it this way.
Money you save you could put towards a 256gb SSD

 

[Luckystrike123]

Windows 10 - you would be better off getting a cheap Windows 7/8.1 upgrade and upgrade vista then upgrade to Win 10 might save a bit of money if you can do it this way.
Money you save you could put towards a 256gb SSD

Had a quick look into this and it looks an excellent idea so will definitely explore this further.

In terms of the 970, is the equivalent AMD card (r9 390?) Better value?

 

[itchy]

120GB is not enough for windows period.

256GB ssd min.

I have same CPU as you, overclock and get a new graphics card you good to go.

Memory is in between at the moment, but 16gb is the way to go.