Upgrade Advice

dragonwarrior

dragonwarrior

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As my comp gave up the ghost last night (CPU and Motherboard) I am having to do upgrades.

Old comp was i5-750, 8GB Kingston Hyper X 1600, HD 4650 1GB and Creative Titanium Sound Card. Friend will be having graphics card, memory and sound card for his son.

Computer is used for gaming (mainly Skyrim), movies, music (live in a small flat so comp used for everything) and some photo/video editing/processing.

I will be ordering Motherboard, CPU, RAM, SSD, Graphics Card, Sound Card (I have 5.1 speakers) and PSU.

I will be looking at allowing for the £700 to £800 mark. Ideas please?
 
 
heres my go ;)

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III OC V2 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £251.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £108.98
1 x XFX Pro Series 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £89.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £86.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1156/1155/1366/AM2/AM2+/AM3/AM3+/FM1) £56.39
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £26.99
Total : £801.91 (includes shipping : £10.50).





but i would have picked this cooler as it would look nice in there, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-003-GD&groupid=701&catid=2330&subcat= and its cheaper so would bring budget down
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/pimg/HS-003-GD_39477_350.jpg

or you could lose the cooler and use the stock one then get this soundcard http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-004-AS&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat=
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 660Ti Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Notebook/Apple Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC256N/EU) £143.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX550M High Performance 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020001-UK) £59.99
1 x Thermalright HR-02 Macho CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1155/LGA1366) £29.18
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
Total : £759.12 (includes shipping : £10.00).



You might find CUDA support useful for the video encoding editing, the 7950 is also very tempting from AMD. I don't think you will need a dedicated soundcard, onboard audio really isnt that bad to be fair.

If you want to have SLI as an option then this maybe

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 660Ti Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Notebook/Apple Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC256N/EU) £143.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £108.98
1 x XFX Pro Series 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £79.99
1 x Thermalright HR-02 Macho CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1155/LGA1366) £29.18
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
Total : £808.72 (includes shipping : £10.50).



@nick THIS PSU is silver rated and only a couple of quid more than the pro. It's actually cheaper than the 750W version
 
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