Potentially Upgrade?

[x22dan]

Hello,

I'm seeking help as i haven't built a PC for years and have no actual knowledge of all the latest hardware.

I'm looking to upgrade my PC due to me getting very loud fans when ever i run a game, Which makes my room feel like a sauna.

Price wise i wouldn't say more than £1,200 as my current build was around £1,500.

My current Specs are
Case: Cooler master CM 690 ll
CPU: AMD PHENOM2 x6 1090T AM3 125w
CPU Closed loop cooler: CORSAIR H50
Motherboard:Asus corsair IV Formula
PSU: Corsair 650w TX
GPU: XFX HD 5870 1GB
Hard Drive: 1TB Samsung Spin point f3
Ram: Corsair Dominator 4x2GB DDR3 1333MHz
SoundCard: Creative Fatal1ty Titanium
Monitor: LG W2252S 22"TFT 1680x1050

 

[illuz]

Keep your case, monitor and hard drive. Sell the rest to cover some costs of the upgrade. Look at my spec in my signature and you could do that for 1.2k easily with selling other parts. Plenty of other spec threads with this budget - have a snoop round the board, I'd spec one up but im on my phone atm

 

[pandem0nium]

I'd go with this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x OCZ Vector 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive VTR1-25SAT3-256G £227.99
2 x HIS HD 7950 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795F3G2M) with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £221.99 (£443.98)
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £173.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £161.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket /LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/LGA2011/AM2/AM3/FM1/FM2) £92.99
1 x Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3D/US) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit £49.99
Total : £1,150.92 (includes shipping : FREE).




If my missus bought me this lot for chistmas, I'd be a very happy man

 

[LukieBoy007]

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 680 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Borderlands 2 & Assassin's Creed III PC Games £359.99
1 x Dell UltraSharp U2312HM 23" Widescreen LED Monitor - Midnight Grey £179.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £161.99
2 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99 (£225.98)
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £89.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £26.39
1 x Corsair AF120 Quiet Edition Low Noise High Airflow - Dual Pack £19.99
Total : £1,064.32 (includes shipping : FREE).



Keep your case, hard drive, sound card and power supply. If you want, you can keep your current monitor but I specced a 1080p IPS panel for you if you wanted to upgrade that too. You could keep your CPU cooler as well to save some money. I included some fans which you could replace on your current H50. Hope this helps

 

[x22dan]

Sorry about the delay,

Both of these specs look amazing.

When it comes to SSD is it better to have SATA or PCI?

Gonna get parts from both of these specs and combine them together

Thanks for the advice !

 

[RJC]

Personally stick with SATA for SSD.