Time to Upgrade

Pedaars

Pedaars

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I am currently running with the below specs

AMD Phenom II x4 965 Black Edition cooled with Corsair H80
Asus Sabertooth 990FX r2.0
Corsair Vengance Blue 16GB (1600 MHz)
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 6Gb/s
MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti OC Twin FrozR 2048GB
Pionerr 24x Internal S19LBK DVD Rewriter
Corsair RM850 PSU

I would like to move over to intels devils canyon but i really dont know where to start with the motherboards I would like to reuse what I can if its practical whatevers left will be going to the Mrs system to upgrade it abit. The only thing im settled on at the moment is the corsair 750d case and adding in an ssd and a much larger storage drive but I cant decide between I7 or I5 any help appreciated guys
 
If you're just using your PC for gaming then an i5 will be perfect. You can use the RAM, CPU cooler and HDD from your current rig, perhaps your PSU as well but you didn't list it. A new GPU to go with the Devil's Canyon upgrade would be good as well.
 
An easy upgrade would be to whack in an 8320 CPU. Good gains and your motherboard will be great for it. Add in a R9 290/280 or similar and you're laughing as well as the SSD/750D as you wanted
 
yer I have looked at piledriver but I think I would rather make the move to intel plus keeps the mrs happy as she gets the leftovers.
 
I think about 800 unless spending more will really make a massive difference I am currently using a haf 912+ case which i can keep if needed for the time being but I would prefer to spend as little as possile as im tight lol
 
That's plenty (I'm guaranteed to be tighter than you :p), should be able to get a new case for that as well

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK - Devil's Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£35 Saving** £336.97
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE AMD 8GB 2400MHz Memory Kit £299.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case - Black (CC-9011035-WW) £124.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £74.99
Total : £836.94 (includes shipping : ).



All of your requirements apart from the larger drive, do you actually need one? If so, I guess you could drop to an i5 and simply drop in a 2TB/3/4TB drive
 
Ok thanks how are the radeon cards now days its been about a few years since I had one and thats was a right pain always had problems with drivers? and i curently have 20gb free of my 1TB drive so I probably should get something bigger at some point
 
The Radeon cards are much improved from what I have heard, drivers aren't excellent but getting there and the performance is outstanding for the money

I suppose you could do something like this then, including a 3TB HDD (do you have a CPU cooler?)

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE AMD 8GB 2400MHz Memory Kit £299.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving** £252.58
1 x Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case - Black (CC-9011035-WW) £124.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD £76.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £74.99
Total : £829.54 (includes shipping : ).

 
Pedaars said:
Ok thanks how are the radeon cards now days its been about a few years since I had one and thats was a right pain always had problems with drivers? and i curently have 20gb free of my 1TB drive so I probably should get something bigger at some point
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Drivers are still arguably inferior to Nvidia, in terms of stability/reliability, but much better these days, and you do get a lot of performance for the money.
 
I have got a corsair h80 thats just being rma'd (screws will no longer tighten into the rad) thats what prompted the look at upgrading
 
The H80 should be fine for a 4690k, I'd stick with that. An upgrade like I specced with the free RAM etc is great value, and ideally you could sell the free RAM on for about £50 which will bring you back under budget
 
Thats good I would probably give the ram to the mrs aswell keep her happy if i wanted to swap the gpu to nvidia would i get similar performance from a 770 or would I need to be looking at the 780?
 
You'd need to be looking at the 780 for similar performance. If you reeeally wanted nvidia



YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 WindForce 3x OC Rev2.0 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N780OC-3GD) £359.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving** £252.58
1 x Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case - Black (CC-9011035-WW) £124.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD £76.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £74.99
Total : £889.54 (includes shipping : ).



Or drop the SSD and HDD to bring it down a little

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 WindForce 3x OC Rev2.0 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N780OC-3GD) £359.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving** £252.58
1 x Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case - Black (CC-9011035-WW) £124.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £57.98
1 x SanDisk Ultra Plus 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDHP-128G-G25) £47.99
Total : £843.53 (includes shipping : ).



But the least I'd be looking at is a 256GB SSD these days, 128GB just isn't enough for OS/games etc. I'd definitely consider AMD now though, much better value
 
Thanks for your help Shivy definetly given me a few things to think about I will have to have read up with regards to amd and totally agree with you about the ssd size
 
Also I forgot to mention the new 870/880 are rumoured to be coming from nVidia next month so might be worthwhile waiting until those are ready to order and then pouncing on them/the 780 which will be similar in performance but probably reduced in price
 
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