Spec for friend.

[dunn2010]

Friend of mine is upgrading his PC and asked myself and another one of my mates to have a look and see what he needs upgrading.

He has a 1100 w corsair PSU (bit overkill )
he has mechanical HDD's but wants a SSD
and a case he can re-use

we decided he needs a
new mboard
new cpu
new gfx card
new ram
new cpu heatsink (old only fits 775 socket)
and a SSD

£650 budget fairly flexible . did start at £500 but he isnt one whos shrapped for cash so we got him to up to £650 and can prob push abit if needed. just for good future proofing

below is what we got so far, any comments improvements?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire HD 7950 Vapor-X OC 3072MB PCI-Express Graphics Card (11196-09-40G) with FREE Sleeping Dogs PC Game £257.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £79.99
1 x Xigmatek Dark Knight SD-1283 Night Hawk Edition CPU Cooler (Socket LGA 2011/1366/1156/1155/775 and AMD FM1/AM3/AM2+/AM2) £31.2
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £23.99
Total : £675.14 (includes shipping : £10.00).

 

[Bacon?]

Few things right of the bat what is his old PSU make and model.

And looks good but I would get a different motherboard like the ASUS or MSI here because a lot of people having been having posting issues with that motherboard.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-202-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-514-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261

Also a different GPU like:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-148-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1673

For the much better warranty and RMA

 

[dunn2010]

Few things right of the bat what is his old PSU make and model.

And looks good but I would get a different motherboard like the ASUS or MSI here because a lot of people having been having posting issues with that motherboard.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-202-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-514-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261

Also a different GPU like:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-148-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1673

For the much better warranty and RMA

Are they still having problems with that motherboard? i thought bios update had fixed the issues?

Can't remember model of the psu just it was 1100 w corsair. i'll text my mate, pc is at his atm and get exact model.

i'll throw that gfx card at him cheers bacon

 

[Bacon?]

Sometimes a BIOS update can stop the issue but not always. I own that motherboard and while it works fine for me I would not buy or reccomend it again as it is having obvious issues.