Upgrade advice

bigsafej

bigsafej

bigsafej

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I currently have an i7 system complete with 4gb of ram that i's like to upgrade as it's one of the origional i7's and i've had it a good few years now, i upgraded the GF card to a Sapphire HD 7950 Vapor-X about 6 months ago and the 650w PSU, case, 1TB HD and optical drive are all fine and don't need replacing.......

So i guess that leaves me only looking for advice on an overclocked bundle and a fairly large SSD

The PC is mainly used for gaming and my plan is to spend under a £1000 on the upgrade

Any help would be much appreciated :)
 
Well after installing Wife V1.0 and Kids V2.0 i've found that i no longer have the time to mess around with overclocking, i'm also a bit out of touch with the latest components so a pre built overclocked bundle would be the prefered option.

As for the case i can't remember off the top of my head what make it is but it's an absolute monster of a case, it currently has a full size ATX mobo and the CPU cooler is huge, also the sapphire GF card fitted no problem so i don't think space will be an issue

Edit*

Just had a look through my OC order history and the case is a Cooler Master ATCS 840 Classic Case
The PSU is an XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver'
HDD is a Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ / ST1000DM005)

As far as i'm concerned all of the above will be fine for another few years
 
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Ok thanks for that !
I looked at upgrading around the time i bought the GF card and the advice at the time for a gaming system all seemed to be based around a Z77 i5 CPU, i'm guessing things have moved onto the Z87 i7 Haswell CPU's now, also i dont really recognise the TeamGroup comapny name for the ram, is this recommended or is it just the only choice you have for an overclockers bundle these days ? might well throw another £100 at it and get a 500gb SSD as i'd like to have my steam folder on it and it's a fair size at the moment, can you see any reason not to do this considering money is not really an issue ?
 
Quick follow up question before i place an order...... would i need to buy a carrier/cage for the SSD and i'm assuming it will come with the cable for the mobo ?
 
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