upgrade advice needed

seb500 · 25 Feb 2016 at 14:21

Afternoon all. I'm looking at upgrading my PC and have a budget of £1100. I've recently purchased a GTX 960 so there is no need for a graphics card, and no real need for hard drives as I have 2 samsung SSDs and a 1TB drive - though saying that I would like one of the new samsung m2 SSD in this build.

From looking on overclockers, I was thinking of something like this;

- Intel i7-5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor
- Gigabyte X99-Gaming 5P Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 EATX Motherboard
- Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit
- Samsung 950 Pro 256GB M.2 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive
- Corsair RM Series RM850X '80+ Gold' 850W Modular Power Supply
- Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler

At this point its about ideas! Thanks all!

Idleman · 25 Feb 2016 at 14:29

What are the main uses for this system? And what is your current system spec?

seb500 · 25 Feb 2016 at 14:43

Idleman said:
What are the main uses for this system? And what is your current system spec?

Current spec is i5-2500k, MSI Z68A-GD55 board and 16gb of 1866 hyperX. I do a fair bit of gaming, but also render videos so would like a lot of cpu grunt - this is why I went with that i7 (I've read that there isn't too much difference between the 5th and 6th gens?!?)

Thanks

SamyBoy13 · 25 Feb 2016 at 15:12

How much of rendering do you do 1 video 20 minutes each or what? Did you overclock your cpu yet?

seb500 · 25 Feb 2016 at 16:16

SamyBoy13 said:
How much of rendering do you do 1 video 20 minutes each or what? Did you overclock your cpu yet?

Only 5-10 min videos, nothing spectacular atm due to university commitments but in the summer I want to do a lot more. Yes I briefly overclocked my CPU using the MSI overclocking function (3.30 to 3.60)