Upgrade help

jg623

jg623

jg623

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Hi,

I'm going to build a new i5/i7 machine. There is a few things im unsure of though.
Should i buy an i7 motherboard and pair it with a 2600k then upgrade this to the 6 core processors in a future date?

or build an i5 2500k machine, and overclock it?. If i were to go down this cheaper route then I'm not really sure what i5 motherboard is good for its price.

Its going to be used for gaming. My current system consists of:
eVGA 780i
eVGA 9800GTX+
Q6600 @ 3GHz
Corsair H50
4GB PC8500 1066MHz
Corsair AX850 PSU
Corsair SSD 60gb
Coolermaster cosmos case
2x 74gb raptors in RAID 0
Fatality titanium soundcard

It does the job at the moment and has done for the past 3 years, its time for a change though :) . I'm thinking about selling this machine after this upgrade (minus the case and HD's) Do you reckon i could get £200-300 for it?
Sorry for all the questions,



Your help is much appreciated.
 
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It will be used for gaming, and my budget is 300-400. I'm in 2 minds whether to keep the 9800gtx at the moment so i can maybe get a slightly better motherboard or something. So i can then upgrade the graphics card in a month or 2

All i need the board to handle is a decent graphics card and a sound card, but giving how far onboard audio has came i might rule a soundcard out entirely.

Thanks for your quick reply!

edit: Am i better getting a bundled deal?
 
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ah sorry, looks like i did get confused, my bad. Thats an amazing price for a motherboard, i was looking to spend at least £150 on one but since that one has onboard SSD, im pretty much sold :)

I've been quite loyal to NVIDIA when it comes to graphics cards, although the 6950 is really impressive.. have ati sorted out their 120hz problem?. I have the benq xl2410t @ 1920x1080. So its not suprising my 9800gtx+ 512mb cant cope at times..

Thanks for your input!
 
Thanks for the input so far,

Ok so i know for definite that the CPU will be the i5 2500k.
I'll probably stick with dual channel DDR3 at the moment- looking at getting this..

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-056-GS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

Im racking my brains over the motherboards though. Is it true that PCI-E 3.0 has to be paired with the upcoming Ivy Bridge processors for it to achieve its full potential?.

I dont want to hold off for these processors as im guessing they will have a big price tag. Anyway, back to the motherboards. There is some that are PCI-E 3.0 ready, while others have built in SSD. Im probably leaning towards the PCI-E 3.0 motherboards,

as fowler002 recommended:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-054-AK&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

does this have good overclocking features?

Thoughts?
 
Ok, i think ive made my mind up.

Im gonna go for a i5 2500k, Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 motherboard and some sort of half decent priced dual channel RAM, probably corsair/gkill.

The gt560 is reasonably priced although, im gonna wait until a pci3 card then i'll buy an ivy bridge processor, price permitting! :D

Thanks for your help, its very much appreciated.
 
RiseAgainst said:
Here is a good deal on the g.skill ram get 8 gigs for £35 :D
Click to expand...

Nice!

One last thing, skimping over the Asrock FATALITY 1155 motherboard, is it really worth £50-60 more?

I guess the only things i would upgrade a year or so down the line would be a PCI-E 3.0 graphics card - ivy bridge processor - and a soundcard.

If i did have this set up, would a PCI-E soundcard be effected by the PCI-E 3.0 graphics card? (giving that it uses more lanes)
 
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