Spec Me New System £500

[MadMan-JaMeS]

Hey Guys,

I'm thinking now is a time to upgrade my old PC.

Right Now i got

AMD Phenom II
Asus M4A78
4Gig DDR2 Ram
ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series Gfx

Now i was thinking of getting a prebuilt system

Then buying a GFX card for it as i don't need a PSU or case but not sure

I've got £500 to spend though would like it cheap as possible. Prefer to go Intel this time since i've always had AMD and fancy a change lol

I've got a 120GB Kingston SSD so don't need another though a decent drive for storage would be sweet.

i got some crap case which i'm cool with and a OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply.

Only gonna be used for gaming, WoW, League Of Legends, Day Z SA few others, and i use dual monitors aswell so gfx needs to be good.

Thanks

 

[stulid]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280 Dual-X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
Total : £501.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).




Check your case can fit the long card in to it etc.

Z97 is future proof as it is rumored to also take Broadwell CPUs.

 

[tamzzy]

reuse your case, psu, optical drive, ssd +/- heatsink

YOUR BASKET
1 x XFX Radeon R9 290 DD 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9-290A-EDFD) £229.99
1 x Asus H81M-K Intel Core i5 DIY Micro ATX Motherboard, CPU & RAM Bundle £225.97
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
Total : £505.51 (includes shipping : £8.00).



i know it's a non-oc build, but you get a radeon 290. a worthwhile tradeoff imo
you get £30 off the gpu with this code at checkout: XFX290PROMO

ps: do you need an os too?

 

[stulid]

Not sure I would want to use a 4+ year old PSU with such a powerful GFX card, especially when the OP is only playing simple stuff.

 

[MadMan-JaMeS]

if i don't have a HDD will i get better performance for my money ?

 

[ShivP]

if i don't have a HDD will i get better performance for my money ?

I don't think you'll be able to squeeze OS, applications and all your files onto a measly 120GB

 

[stulid]

if i don't have a HDD will i get better performance for my money ?

Yes you can,

YOUR BASKET
1 x XFX Radeon R9 290 DD 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9-290A-EDFD) £229.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
Total : £541.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Again use that voucher code to get £30 off.

But I still think this is ott on the gfx card front.

 

[tamzzy]

Not sure I would want to use a 4+ year old PSU with such a powerful GFX card, especially when the OP is only playing simple stuff.

haha true that, given it was only powering a 57xx