System Upgrade

aslco · 10 Apr 2012 at 18:18

I am looking to upgrade my system just to be able to deal with Adobe Premiere, Light room and Pro Tools without breaking a sweat. It also needs to play some games such as Fifa 12 and NBA 2k12 at high quality.

I'd like to aim around the £400 budget. Ultimately i need new RAM, motherboard and CPU, though if a solid state drive can be included in that price range then that'd be great.

Finally, have power requirements changed in the last few years? I think my PSU is a 550watt / 600watt one (i made sure it was good quality at the time of purchase), will that be ok for nearly any kind of medium - high end PC?

Thanks everyone!

aslco · 10 Apr 2012 at 18:38

going from AMD 4600+ 2.4ghz CPU,

gigabyte motherboard which is am2+ socket similar in spec (but odler) to this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-028-AK&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=

and then just 4Gb of DDR2 memory.

I just want a good upgrade that'll last me 2 odd years

i have an ATI 3870 GPU which isn't amazing, but it still does the job most of the time, ill do the mobo, cpu and RAm upgrade first then go from there i think

aslco · 10 Apr 2012 at 18:45

No i think i want to move to an i5 or i7 setup, i get the impression intel have gone miles ahead now

aslco · 10 Apr 2012 at 18:57

Surely it'd be wiser for me to go for the i7 than the overclocked i5 at the same price?

what about a ~£160 i5 for the sake of getting the solid state drive too? Or do you think the CPU really needs to be that high