Repair and upgrade

[Anrasp]

During a storm my motherboard and monitor were fried

Previous build
Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor E2200 2.2GHz 800MHz 1MB LGA775
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Fan For Intel CPU
Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA2 7200rpm 16MB Hard Drive
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L Core 2 Quad/ Intel P35/ DDR2-1066
Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000BNA Aluminum No Power Supply Case
Palit nVidia GeForce 9600GT Sonic 512MB 700MHz 2DVI/Display
Seasonic S12 SS-550HT Energy+ 550W SLI EPS Power Supply
OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Reaper HPC Dual Channel kit (4-4-4-15)
Samsung 2253BW 22 inch WideScreen 1000:1 2ms DVI LCD Monitor

I am now going to repair and also take the opportunity to upgrade some parts. PC will be mainly used for screening avi files, browsing and gaming ( mainly World of Warcraft )

I have put together the below components.


1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £191.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £94.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1333C9) £53.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards with FREE GAMES £134.99
Iiyama Prolite E2773HS-GB1 27" Widescreen LED 1MS Monitor - Black 209.99
Total : 685.95
Will this be fine ?

Thanks for your inputs

 

[Orionaut]

Wow, that's a bit harsh!

A bit of an aside to your main question.

What is the best way of protecting a system from this sort of thing. When I think about how much I have spent on mine I would be gutted if an electrical surge fried it!

I have a "Surge protector" power strip but I have never really been convinced that it would actually do the business if the time came!

What do others have as protection (UPS maybe?? do they work as effective "Firewalls" against lightening strikes??))

 

[Anrasp]

A bit harsh ?

with regards to your question some persons advised me to install a surge protector.. but i doubt that it is fail safe solution against lightning. A better deal would be insurance ...at least that is what i intend to do .

Now back on topic

 

[Warsam71]

I think your new rig will be fine...I'm assuming you're keeping the 550w power supply, right?

The only thing I'd ask you to consider is an SSD (install the OS here) and/or a bigger HDD (store all programs here) since you're planning on watching movies and do some gaming

 

[Hyburnate]

I think your new rig will be fine...I'm assuming you're keeping the 550w power supply, right?

The only thing I'd ask you to consider is an SSD (install the OS here) and/or a bigger HDD (store all programs here) since you're planning on watching movies and do some gaming

Not going to recommend a Piledriver?

OP: you could get better RAM and perhaps a new case on the Insurances tab

 

[Anrasp]

I think your new rig will be fine...I'm assuming you're keeping the 550w power supply, right?

The only thing I'd ask you to consider is an SSD (install the OS here) and/or a bigger HDD (store all programs here) since you're planning on watching movies and do some gaming

Yes i will be keeping the psu since Seasonic are rated as very decent Psu's. I do intend to install an SSD but in the future since I am on a budget

 

[Anrasp]

Not going to recommend a Piledriver?

OP: you could get better RAM and perhaps a new case on the Insurances tab

Yes I could opt for better ram but this will mean that I will have to change to a higher spec motherboard. Case is nothing special but is still ok.