Hi guys,
Every couple of years I log back in here and start one of these threads
I'm really very behind the times and not very clued up on modern kit- time for an upgrade, from my Q6600 
This is designed to keep the initial spend down but with ease of upgrading since, as you can tell, I like stuff to last!
(couldn't work out the basket link!)
Intel Pentium K G3258 £52
HIS Radeon R9 380 IceQ X2 4096MB £169.99
Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £24.95
Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm £20.00
Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £62
8gb ram of some sort- TBC, £45 ish.
£375 or thereabouts
Reusing my old PSU, and drives as they're recent replacements. I could save a little on the GPU but it seems like dropping down to a 2gb or a 960 is a bit of a false economy... And obviously, the CPU is for overclocking but might be for upgrading in future, the price leap to an i5 is a bit much to swallow right now
Oh and the new case purely for convenience; though I might rebuild in my old 300...
(possibly relevent; does a Q6600 G0 with board and 8gb fast ddr2, or a GTX560 with an aftermarket cooler, have any value worth mentioning? Anything I can recover from that could go into the new build. Perhaps someone is building a museum)
Any help much appreciated... This feels basically solid but I'm really not up to speed with anything recent!
Every couple of years I log back in here and start one of these threads
I'm really very behind the times and not very clued up on modern kit- time for an upgrade, from my Q6600 This is designed to keep the initial spend down but with ease of upgrading since, as you can tell, I like stuff to last! (couldn't work out the basket link!)
Intel Pentium K G3258 £52
HIS Radeon R9 380 IceQ X2 4096MB £169.99
Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £24.95
Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm £20.00
Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £62
8gb ram of some sort- TBC, £45 ish.
£375 or thereabouts
Reusing my old PSU, and drives as they're recent replacements. I could save a little on the GPU but it seems like dropping down to a 2gb or a 960 is a bit of a false economy... And obviously, the CPU is for overclocking but might be for upgrading in future, the price leap to an i5 is a bit much to swallow right now
Oh and the new case purely for convenience; though I might rebuild in my old 300...
(possibly relevent; does a Q6600 G0 with board and 8gb fast ddr2, or a GTX560 with an aftermarket cooler, have any value worth mentioning? Anything I can recover from that could go into the new build. Perhaps someone is building a museum
) Any help much appreciated... This feels basically solid but I'm really not up to speed with anything recent!