Spec me an upgrade

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Infidelus

Infidelus

While I'm temporarily in the world of the working again, I'd like to upgrade the core bits of my games machine.

There's nothing really functionally wrong with it (apart from it gets a bit noisy when I'm gaming), but it's only Sata II and USB 2. The latter isn't really that important to me, but my SSD is getting bored going slowly (or that's my excuse of the minute anyway).

Current machine is:

Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3
AMD Phenom II X4 965
Sapphire HD 6790
8GB of RAM

I'm looking to spend around £400 if the upgrade is worth it. I can go a bit higher, but certainly no more than £500.

As I mentioned, the machine starts to get a tad noisy when gaming (it is only running a stock fan though), so along with the upgrade, one of the most important features is ..... quiet.

Over to you :)
 
Gone a little extreme:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £197.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £99.95
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £46.03
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £29.99
Total : £535.34 (includes shipping : £9.50).



or, hopefully the Motherboard will take the cpu without a BIOS update:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £185.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards £149.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £46.03
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £45.95
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £29.99
Total : £469.94 (includes shipping : £10.00).

 
A little cheaper on the expensive system as the items are on This Week Only deals:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £191.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards £143.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £103.99
1 x Adata XPG Gaming v1.0 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AX3U1600GC4G9-2G) £43.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £29.99
Total : £525.35 (includes shipping : £9.50).





Infidelus said:
You did, didn't you :)

But thanks. Worth seeing if I can stretch the budget just that little bit further. I may have to do it over two paydays ;)
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:D
 
RJC said:
A little cheaper on the expensive system as the items are on This Week Only deals:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £191.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards £143.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £103.99
1 x Adata XPG Gaming v1.0 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AX3U1600GC4G9-2G) £43.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £29.99
Total : £525.35 (includes shipping : £9.50).








:D
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And sold to the man who's going to be dieting next month :p (Free delivery helped :))
 
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Infidelus said:
Can I just say, the heatsink on this thing is MAHOOOOSIVE!!!! Some of my old components have set up residence inside (and invited their friends)!

On the plus side (and after some out loud naughty words while putting the DIY kit together) it's pretty much whisper quiet. :)
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Excellent :D

Any pics of your new setup :)
 
RJC said:
Excellent :D

Any pics of your new setup :)
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Extremely tardy response from me. Part due to laziness and part due to my lack of enthusiasm for photography ;)

As you can see, my cable tidying technique needs some work (even after all these years building my own machines :rolleyes:), but other than that, all splendid and lovely!

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holy crap! You threw a bomb in there didnt you? dont lie now :P The spec above from RJC is bang on, just get the mobo/cpu and ram for now and worry about the rest later. At least the meat of its sorted
 
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