PC upgrade on £300-400 budget

lukaszlegia1916

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Hi all.

I need advice on upgrading my 8-year old PC. The only change I made since I bought it was adding ssd drive (Evo 850) 250GB and changing video card to GTX 1060.


I can spend £300 for upgrade. I use my pc for:

1. Gaming (Football Manager 80% of time, other games 20%)
2. Editing video

PC spec:
GTX 1060 GAMING X 6GB
Msi H61mu-e35 1155 Matx (Msi H61mu-e35 1155 Matx)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 - hard drive - 500 GB - SATA-600
2x Kingston ValueRAM memory - 4 GB - DIMM 240-pin - 1333 Mhz DDR3 (Kingston ValueRAM memory - 4 GB - DIMM 240-pin - DDR3)
Xfx Pro 450w Power Supply Unit (core Edition) (Xfx Pro 450w Power Supply Unit (core Edition))
Intel Core i5 2300 / 2.8 GHz processor
1 x Cooler Master Centurion 5 II - mid tower - ATX/MicroATX (Coolermaster Rc-502 Centurion 5 Ii Midi-tower Case - No Psu

Couple questions:
1.If I need to add RAM is it advisable to buy 2x8GB of new RAM or I can just add another 8GB to existing one?
2. Is m.2 ssd drive a good idea?If yes but I would have to go over a budget of £300 I am willing to do so.
3. Will I need new power supply unit or current one will cope with new components?


Huge thank you for any suggestions,
Lukasz
 
You'll be okay with current PSU if it's in good shape. Though some would go with new if 8 years old, especially if adding new components. It's your call, nothing bad might ever happen, just decreases some risk.

M.2 SSD could be of benefit as a scratch/cache disk for your editing work. But it's a bit of a luxury with that budget and the money right now ought to go on best CPU/board/RAM possible. Also, which program/s are you using for editing?

RAM is now DDR4 so if you were to buy modern CPU and board you'd need new RAM as well. I think because of needing new RAM, you'd be better off spending the max you'd have spent with an M.2.

Basically Ryzen 2600 + B450 board + 3200 16GB RAM for just under £400.
 
You could also keep going with current system and wait for Ryzen 3 processors to arrive. Meanwhile RAM prices are expected to keep falling for time being.
 
Hi and welcome to the forums. :)

If you are gaming at 1080p the GTX1060 is good enough and you have a SSD so if you can possibly hang on until the middle of the year AMD will be launching their new Ryzen 3000 cpu's and motherboards which could be a big leap forward in performance going by the hype surrounding them.

If you can't wait a AMD Ryzen cpu, B450 motherboard, 16Gb of memory and a new psu would be my suggestion. I would have gone for the R5 2600 but it's out of stock like a lot of the AMD stuff on here. You could drop the psu and swap the cpu to a 2600X although I would replace the psu sooner rather than later as that series was launched in 2011 so is getting on a bit now.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £405.98 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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Alternate build using your current psu, R5 2600X and a better motherboard:-

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £415.43 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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intel side of things , i5 8400 + ssd

intel i5 8400 matches all core speed of 2600/2600x and slightly lower then 2600x for single core but greater then 2600. Though it has the stronger IPC so should be equal to 2600x

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/core_i5/i5-8400

depending on the video editing programs, ryzen could come out on top but if your using additional programs like adobe aftereffects, they would heavily favour intel


https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...CC-2019-CPU-Roundup-Intel-vs-AMD-vs-Mac-1297/


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £431.41 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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would still side with ryzen but food for thought
 
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