Upgrade advice

techmob

techmob

techmob

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Hi guys/gals

I am wanting to upgrade my PC

Couple of reasons

1) left over kit goes into my sons first PC gaming machine.
2) I like new things and I do game a bit

PC will mainly be used for gaming
Battlefield, FIFA and any other really nice looking games, maybe GTA and mods when it comes out.

Video editing
I mess around with this and photoshop but even my current PC handles that ok, so shouldn't be a problem

Video capturing
Currently capture with xsplit and using the PC processing power, if that is the recommended way of doing it if you have a fast enough PC then that needs to be considered.

Current setup
Asus P8P67-M PRO
has a blu ray player t
i7-2600 quad core(3.4Ghz turbo to 3.8Ghz)
Cooler: Thermaltake Frio cooler
GPU : 2x 570 sli
32Gb ram - Kingston KVR16N11/8 1600MHz DDR3 8Gb sticks
256Gb Samsung 830 SSD
320Gb Western Digital C Black
Sata drives.
PSU: Seventeam 750w
Hiper Anubis Case
Windows 8 pro
Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro
1xDell SP2309W monitor
1xbenq XL2420TX used for gaming in 1080p


Now I have a budget of approx £1k and want to invest that on mainly components that are going to be able to be upgraded over a few years to maintain a reasonable gaming platform.

Not sure where to start lol
 
Well, here's my opinion:

CPU: i7 4790K
Motherboard: A Gigabyte Gaming series Z97 board; ATX/Micro-ATX/M-itx depending on your form factor/case of choice
RAM: For your Video Editing, have to check what's the max usage you have so far? Cause if 16GB is sufficient, you can just take two sticks of the 8GB you already got to reuse them.
SSD: Grab a 500/512GB SSD may be so you can have most of your game installed and ready to play anytime you want without having to worry too much of prioritising installations?
Case: depending on your preference
PSU: A SuperFlower 850W/1000W Gold Full modular

Graphic card: Won't recommend any that the moment...will wait till Friday to see price and reviews on Nvidia's "new" GTX900 series, and see if they are actually worth getting, as well as what impact they would have on the pricing of the existing cards.
 
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Ok cheers for that

Would the ram be a bottle neck to for today's standards? If not , not a bad idea as 16gb on each system would see me through

32gb is overkill really.

But the question is upgrading, CPU , motherboard and gpu wouldn't ram then be a slit bottle neck on feeding the inform between the CPU , gpu and motherboard

Negligible I would imagine but still a question to be answered

Thanks
 
If I were you I'd definitely go 16GB RAM in each system, best way to distribute :)
16GB RAM is the sweet spot for rendering/editing videos etc at the moment if I'm correct
I agree with Marine on most points, though perhaps go for an EVGA G2 PSU as you get an excellent 10 year warranty with it and it's effectively the same unit inside as the Leadex's anyway :)
 
can get a 2nd hand bundle of the following £350
(is it worth it, and secondly should I be looking past the Z87 as it doesn't have the m.2 support?
not keen on the ram though.

board:
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard [7821-001R]
cpu:
Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail [BX80646I74790K]
memory:
Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21331104G-2CI) - Blue Light [AVD3U21331104G-2CI]
 
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