Time for an upgrade

runs withscissors

runs withscissors

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The last time I did my upgrade was about five years ago and I'm finding my pc getting a bit long in the tooth. I was looking to spend about £800 on an upgrade but keep some of the components.

The case is in ok shape a swell as the hard drives and the power supply and i'm not looking to get new monitors yet.

Case: Antec 900
Mother Board: MSI 1155 Intel P67A-GD53-B3
CPU: i5 2500k
Memory: 16gb Vengeance DDR3 1600MHZ
Graphics: 7870xt 2gb
Power: 750w Tough Power (I think)

Now I was thinking two options

1. Add a water cooling kit and overclock my cpu to get a bit more life out of it and add just a new graphics card

2. Start with some new components but keep the case and hard drives and maybe change the power supply for something modular

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
 
My 2500k went to 4.2 with just a multiplier change, no voltage increase required.

What's probably making your machine struggle in recent games is the graphics card. While some games do show significant benefit in more and better cores you'll undoubtedly see a huge benefit in upgrading your card. Even something like a second hand 970 or 980 or a new 1060 6GB would give an immediate and noticeable benefit.

Even showing a 7970, a faster card than yours against a 980 shows a massive increase in FPS across the board.
https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1722?vs=1716

Of course for £800 you could replace most of it easily enough too.
 
I dont mimd spending abit of money or buying a second hand cpu but the less money I have to spend the better.

I dont mind trying an overclock on my cpu my mother board makes it realy easy.

For a graphics card I was thinking an rx470/480 8gb

Im looking for longevity because who knows when I will have some extra money to spend.
 
runs withscissors said:
I dont mimd spending abit of money or buying a second hand cpu but the less money I have to spend the better.

I dont mind trying an overclock on my cpu my mother board makes it realy easy.

For a graphics card I was thinking an rx470/480 8gb

Im looking for longevity because who knows when I will have some extra money to spend.
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Slap in the RX and see how you go , once you start to notice bottle neck then you can think about next course of action
 
runs withscissors said:
The last time I did my upgrade was about five years ago and I'm finding my pc getting a bit long in the tooth. I was looking to spend about £800 on an upgrade but keep some of the components.

The case is in ok shape a swell as the hard drives and the power supply and i'm not looking to get new monitors yet.

Case: Antec 900
Mother Board: MSI 1155 Intel P67A-GD53-B3
CPU: i5 2500k
Memory: 16gb Vengeance DDR3 1600MHZ
Graphics: 7870xt 2gb
Power: 750w Tough Power (I think)

Now I was thinking two options

1. Add a water cooling kit and overclock my cpu to get a bit more life out of it and add just a new graphics card

2. Start with some new components but keep the case and hard drives and maybe change the power supply for something modular

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi,

My offer for you is to get these parts:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £720.06
(includes shipping: £11.10)



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and sell your old CPU, RAM, motherboard and GPU.

If you want, you can replace the Ryzen 5 1600 6C/12T with Ryzen 7 1700 8C/16T.
 
Buy the graphics card first, then if you are not happy you can always change the CPU for the 2600K/3770K, or if you are feeling flush buy a whole new CPU/RAM/mobo setup.

To be fair, I think that an RX580 is hardly going to bottlenect a well OC'd 2500K in most games. :)
 
As someone who hasn't really paid attention to memory pricing for the past eighteen months my reaction to the basket above is 'holy **** when did memory get THAT expensive?! £200 for 16GB!?'.
 
Journey said:
To be fair, I think that an RX580 is hardly going to bottlenect a well OC'd 2500K in most games. :)
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Actually, the OC'd 2500K will bottleneck the card ;)

MissChief said:
As someone who hasn't really paid attention to memory pricing for the past eighteen months my reaction to the basket above is 'holy **** when did memory get THAT expensive?! £200 for 16GB!?'.
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I think early this year, around Ryzen launch.​
 
MissChief said:
As someone who hasn't really paid attention to memory pricing for the past eighteen months my reaction to the basket above is 'holy **** when did memory get THAT expensive?! £200 for 16GB!?'.
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2015- couple of tons of wafers were scraped when prices were low and ssd and beter ddr adaptation in laptop and phones took of- lead to demand out striping supply- even if the amount of wafers hadn't been scraped - still would have got to a high price point
 
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