Spec me an upgrade please

Mucky_Pup

Mucky_Pup

Mucky_Pup

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After having Ghosts crap out on me because I haven't got enough ram, and now Wolfenstein not working due to still running vista, and a few other newer games performing not at their best, and the fact I built this PC in 2008 I think I'm due an upgrade, and will probabley turn my current one into a HTPC.

What would people recommend for about £1k-1.2k, to hopefully get me another 6 years.

Will be recycling my case, blu-ray drive, HDD's, and if I can I have a Coolermaster 850w modular PSU which I would like to reuse if possible.

So all I'm really after is;

- Motherboard
- CPU
- CPU Cooler
- RAM
- Graphics
- OS

Normal resolution I use is 1920x1080p, and have went with AMD graphics for a while now, but may fancy a change to Nvidia.

Cheers
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 780 Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £347.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £251.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard **Overclockers UK Exclusive** £154.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.98
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
Total : £1,103.52 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Preference of the 780 over the 290/290x, they're not as power hungry or as hot
Motherboard is a beast and will allow a massive overclock on the 4770k.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 780 Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £347.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £251.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 1220 Series 4 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £81.6
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (TXD38G2400HC10QDC01) £59.99
Total : £926.54 (includes shipping : ).




What is your current case ?

The Gaming 3 board comes with a free headset whilst stock lasts

If you can hang fire a few weeks, the refresh 'k' cpu's should be out.
 
 
We need to know what case you have, so we can recommend a cooler that will fit and to make sure the new Gpu will also fit.
 
The Antec 300 is a pretty old design now. The Antec 1220 wont fit in the roof as the case only has 1 fan mount.

Are you open to a new case as well ?
 
 
 
 
Yeah i would stick with the 780. You can always upgrade the gpu when it starts to struggle, or go sli with another 780.
 
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