I want to upgrade from a system now six years old. The only usable parts from it would be the Antec 300 case (needing new USB 3 front panel added) and the 600W power supply, which should still be in good nick as I've never done any serious overclocking, SLI, high power usage etc.
So I'm considering taking these old parts and building around them. Not buying a PSU and case (-front panel cost) would only save me around £80, and of course leave me with an old non-functional PC with I guess parts that are unlikely to sell for any decent money (Radeon 4800 serious card and Q6600 CPU).
So if I don't take the parts I have two builds in mind.
Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE AMD 8GB 2400MHz Memory Kit £299.99
MSI Z97I Gaming AC - Devil's Canyon i5 4690K CPU & Mini ITX Motherboard Bundle **£18 Saving** £259.98
Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £96.98
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £54.98
Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £44.99
SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £44.99
Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm £19.99
£821.90 inc VAT (which is really past my budget, which I'd like to be £700 lol)
or as above but with the R9 280 for £149.99 and 8GB kingston memory £60.00
£731 inc VAT
Is it worth paying £90 more to get the 290? I'd like the PC to last another 5-6 years if possible as I doubt I'll upgrade again. But then again just don't have time to game as much with 3 children now
If I did upgrade the old system is there any market for the other old parts? I have thoughts of making it a media PC for my living room, but again doubt it will get much use. So in some ways there is almost no point in keeping it.
Heard rumours of a 285 coming soon. Is it worth waiting if I'm not in a hurry? Most of the stuff in my basket seems to be on some really great deals right now, potentially saving over £80ish, so perhaps not.
Thanks
So I'm considering taking these old parts and building around them. Not buying a PSU and case (-front panel cost) would only save me around £80, and of course leave me with an old non-functional PC with I guess parts that are unlikely to sell for any decent money (Radeon 4800 serious card and Q6600 CPU).
So if I don't take the parts I have two builds in mind.
Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE AMD 8GB 2400MHz Memory Kit £299.99
MSI Z97I Gaming AC - Devil's Canyon i5 4690K CPU & Mini ITX Motherboard Bundle **£18 Saving** £259.98
Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £96.98
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £54.98
Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £44.99
SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £44.99
Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm £19.99
£821.90 inc VAT (which is really past my budget, which I'd like to be £700 lol)
or as above but with the R9 280 for £149.99 and 8GB kingston memory £60.00
£731 inc VAT
Is it worth paying £90 more to get the 290? I'd like the PC to last another 5-6 years if possible as I doubt I'll upgrade again. But then again just don't have time to game as much with 3 children now
If I did upgrade the old system is there any market for the other old parts? I have thoughts of making it a media PC for my living room, but again doubt it will get much use. So in some ways there is almost no point in keeping it.
Heard rumours of a 285 coming soon. Is it worth waiting if I'm not in a hurry? Most of the stuff in my basket seems to be on some really great deals right now, potentially saving over £80ish, so perhaps not.
Thanks