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larryddd

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Morning all need a bit of advice from the good people here. I have put £1500 aside to either update or build new computer, is it worth updating my present computer (see sig) or if I go for a new one is there any parts that are worth keeping. Also could you give me some specs to go for to the value of £1500, I use my computer for mostly gaming.Thanks for taking the time to read this post.
 
With Haswell only some weeks away, you are probably better waiting.

Parts to keep, well the 6950 is still an ok card, as long as is the 2gb and not 1gb model.

Not sure on that CPU, you won't find much to upgrade on that rig without hitting the same problem you have atm and that is deadend socket, any money invested in a cpu might be considered a waste.

Only CPU's I know of is the Qx9xxx range, but those are expensive.

I would think a new build rather than an upgrade.
 
If you wanted a complete overhaul, you could go with something kinda like this:

YOUR BASKET
2 x HIS HD 7950 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795F3G2M) £239.99 (£479.98)
1 x Asus Z77 Sabertooth Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £188.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £179.99
1 x Intel 335 Series 20nm 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail (SSDSC2CT240A4K5) £173.99
1 x Seasonic M12II 850W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £109.98
1 x Phanteks PH-TC14CS CPU Cooler - Black (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £52.99
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £47.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,328.88 (includes shipping : £10.00).



Someone will tweak/make different builds, not sure on the SSD or the RAM, although I have that RAM no idea if there is anything better with that kind of budget.

Left the case out as that is personal choice and CPU cooler was picked because I have one and it runs great on my little i3.
 
Gibbo3771 said:
If you wanted a complete overhaul, you could go with something kinda like this:

YOUR BASKET
2 x HIS HD 7950 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795F3G2M) £239.99 (£479.98)
1 x Asus Z77 Sabertooth Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £188.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £179.99
1 x Intel 335 Series 20nm 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail (SSDSC2CT240A4K5) £173.99
1 x Seasonic M12II 850W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £109.98
1 x Phanteks PH-TC14CS CPU Cooler - Black (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £52.99
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £47.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,328.88 (includes shipping : £10.00).



Someone will tweak/make different builds, not sure on the SSD or the RAM, although I have that RAM no idea if there is anything better with that kind of budget.

Left the case out as that is personal choice and CPU cooler was picked because I have one and it runs great on my little i3.
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:cool: ... +100 likes ... and within the budget ... like it
 
Looking at this, you could go with a 2011 socket with a 7950, a 7970 would be better but yeah won't fit in budget:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - OEM £469.99
1 x Asus X79 Sabertooth Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £266.99
1 x HIS HD 7950 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795F3G2M) £239.99
1 x Intel 335 Series 20nm 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail (SSDSC2CT240A4K5) £173.99
1 x Seasonic M12II 850W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £109.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £52.99
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £47.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,390.91 (includes shipping : £10.00).

 
The X79 sabertooth is stupidly expensive.. A gigabyte/asus board would be cheaper and just as good.

Dual channel RAM for 2011? Quad channel is needed mate... But does he need a 3930k? I think not..
 
Doomedspeed said:
The X79 sabertooth is stupidly expensive.. A gigabyte/asus board would be cheaper and just as good.

Dual channel RAM for 2011? Quad channel is needed mate... But does he need a 3930k? I think not..
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cheers for clarifying, never made a 2011 socket build before :D

I was more of a case of looking at want more than need, if you hve 1500 to spend may as well get the best you can, just wanted to have a bash at a 2011 build and yeah, I suck, will stick to usual 1155 builds :(
 
YOUR BASKET
2 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) £251.99 (£503.98)
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £179.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black £149.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD250BW) ** Cash Back Promo ** £134.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99
1 x XFX 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £83.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £73.99
1 x Thermalright Silver Arrow SB-E SE CPU Cooler TY-143 Fans (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £59.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £59.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,393.38 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
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