System upgrade £600 - £800 budget

[jakedude182]

Hi i'm looking at parts to upgrade my old gaming pc, which is pretty much a complete rebuild.

Current old PC:
Q6600 @ 3.3Ghz with arctic freezer pro
4gb corsair xms2 ram
EVGA GTX460
Corsair HX620W psu
2tb Samsung F1 hdd
Antec 900 case
Windows 7 premium
24" Samsung monitor


Please could you help with the part choices
Upgrade parts:

1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99

Corsair Hydro H80i
Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060008-WW)

1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £92.99

Asus Maximus VII Ranger Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard

8gb DDR3 Ram -- not sure about speeds 1600 or cheap 2400Mhz
Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11T3K2/8)


1 x Antec High Current Gamer M 750W "80+ Bronze" Modular Power Supply £89.99

Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW)

I won't be upgrading the OS or monitor, but am not sure about whether I need to look at a new psu or case.
Also I plan to overclock it as much as possible, is any particular z97 mobo a good one to go for?

Thanks

 

[stulid]

Hi,

The H80i I would imagine fits your case but a H100i I doubt will.

How does this look,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £92.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x SK Hynix 256GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS256G32MNB-2201A) £84.98
1 x Avexir Core Red Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21331104G-2CIR) - Red Light £65.99
Total : £523.54 (includes shipping : £8.00).



£22.50 cashback - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18637856

EVGA PSU has a 10 year warranty and is made by Superflower.

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Theres also this RAM (but out of stock) - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-061-TG&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=2429

 

[jakedude182]

Current case has a 120mm fan in, your right H100i won't fit

 

[stulid]

You might prefer a regular air cooler.

The H80i looks expensive to me.

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Your budget allows for i7 too,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK - Devil's Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£15 Saving + Gigabyte Free Upgrade + £30 Intel Cashback ** £387.98
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x SK Hynix 256GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS256G32MNB-2201A) £84.98
1 x Avexir Golden Blitz 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U24001004G-2BZ1SE) £79.99
Total : £652.55 (includes shipping : £8.00).



£32.50 cashback.

Free board upgrade - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18631511

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YOUR BASKET
1 x "ReVenge Gigabyte Z97" Intel Core i7 4790K @ up to 4.6GHz Configurable Enthusiast Gaming Bundle £182.00
- 1 x Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060008-WW) £79.99
- 1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2133HC11ADC01) **SOLD OUT** £65.99
- 1 x Intel i7 4790K - 4.8GHz Binned £299.99
- 1 x Standard Build Laptops - Approximately 3 to 5 working days £0.00
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x SK Hynix 256GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS256G32MNB-2201A) £84.98
Total : £812.54 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[jakedude182]

oh rite, is the water one similar for overclocking temps?

meant to include a overclockable gpu also:
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (04G-P4-2974-KR)

 

[stulid]

You can overclock on the H80i ok.

As for overclockable GFX cards - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-273-MS

Beast.

 

[jakedude182]

I was thinking i5-4690K over i7-4790k as it is quite a bit cheaper and that reviews generally say that for gaming at least the difference of a few fps with latest games is not much to worry about.

 

[stulid]

Yeah, I thought it was 600-800 minus the gfx card.

 

[jakedude182]

Rite

Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99

Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060008-WW) - £79.99

1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply
£84.98

EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (04G-P4-2974-KR)
-£275
Have decided on nvidia over amd for gpu

Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW)]
-£108

1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £92.99

Total: ~£750 - £800

I saw this motherboard:
Asus Maximus VII Ranger Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard

Looking at the better sound features it has, undecided about that yet. Or to get a soundcard also instead and a different motherboard.

 

[stulid]

Here's an odd spec,


YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 290X Lightning Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z97 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £118.99
1 x SK Hynix 256GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS256G32MNB-2201A) £84.98
1 x G.Skill TridentX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-2400C10D-8GTX) £79.99
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 620W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £64.99
1 x Silverstone Heligon SST-HE01 CPU Cooler £44.99
Total : £823.52 (includes shipping : £8.00).




£25 cashback

The Sniper has Creative Core3D sound and Nichicon Muse capacitors.

The RAM is fast and tight timings (possibly Samsung IC's).

The PSU isn't enough for two GFX cards but one only, each card needs 2x 8pin and 1 x 6pin power connectors.

The cooler I hope fits in your case, its 161mm tall, it is reduced from £59.99.

 

[jakedude182]

do you know if I can use my current Corsair HX620W psu

 

[stulid]

do you know if I can use my current Corsair HX620W psu

I wouldn't, really old and they deteriorate over time.

 

[jakedude182]

I can imagine that heatsink filling with dust, so i plan to stay with a H80i
-yes my old psu is too old

 

[jakedude182]

Just bought this system.
The sound system on the motherboard looks great compared with other boards at that price range, thanks for linking to that.

I didn't have much idea about ATI cards compared with nvidia, after some reading and looking at reviews that R9 competes with the GTX980 mainly and its cheaper than the 970, so I switched to that.

I ended up going over budget quite a bit!, but not hugely over, tried to stick to buying most parts from ocuk for ease.

Will look around for where the H80i is in stock.

Thanks for your quick suggestions and feedback

 

[stulid]

OH,

Im not sure if OEM cpus count towards cashback.

 

[jakedude182]

Oh hopefully then..
I just got an email from ocuk about the gpu.

the graphic's card you have ordered is currently out of stock, due to this we will need to change it to an alternative to have this shipped if you would like to wait to ETA we have is 12/12 however they did not arrive with us on this date.

I'm thinking that they might arrive on Monday, so i'll probably stick with it and wait for it to arrive, not sure yet. OCUK have said it I want to switch to another gpu though

 

[stulid]

Stick with it, you did say you want to overclock as much as possible.

3 free games, 290X not 290 etc.

 

[jakedude182]

Order shipped today. Took a while for those GPUs to come back in stock though ocuk gave great communication.

Thanks again for your help

 

[stulid]