Upgrade on a £500 budget..

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Way back in February 2015 I bought my first gaming/work PC from Overclockers UK.

A "Titan Dagger" Intel G3258 Anniversary Edition @ 4.2GHz Overclocked
Case: BitFenix Neos ATX
CPU: Intel G3258 overclocked 4.2GHz
CPU Cooler: Single fan Tower
Motherboard: Asrock H81 Pro BTC
Graphics Card: Galax Geforce GTX 970 Black EXOC 4GB DDR5 256-bit
Primary: 1TB HDD
Secondary: 2TB HDD
RAM: Hyperx 16gb (2x8GB) 2400MHZ
Power: Super Flower 80 Plus Gold 350W

Now I'm not sure what to upgrade from this point.
I play mostly sim racing and FPS like Assetto Corsa, Dirt rally, Farcry and BF4.
Can anyone advise? Budget of £500 to work with.
 
Budget of £500, get a 2nd hand i7-4770K or 4790K (look members market here, or local markets, or CEX, etc, they can be had for £120-ish).

Then spend the rest on a new PSU and new Vega 56 or GTX1070Ti class card.

To be honest you might be OK with the 970 for another while, you're probably getting tonnes of stuttering and framedrop in some games, but that's because of the G3258, which is completely obsolete.
 
Terrorfirmer said:
Budget of £500, get a 2nd hand i7-4770K or 4790K (look members market here, or local markets, or CEX, etc, they can be had for £120-ish).

Then spend the rest on a new PSU and new Vega 56 or GTX1070Ti class card.

To be honest you might be OK with the 970 for another while, you're probably getting tonnes of stuttering and framedrop in some games, but that's because of the G3258, which is completely obsolete.
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And the 3.5GB on the GTX 970 :D

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £333.48 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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Terrorfirmer said:
Budget of £500, get a 2nd hand i7-4770K or 4790K (look members market here, or local markets, or CEX, etc, they can be had for £120-ish).

Then spend the rest on a new PSU and new Vega 56 or GTX1070Ti class card.

To be honest you might be OK with the 970 for another while, you're probably getting tonnes of stuttering and framedrop in some games, but that's because of the G3258, which is completely obsolete.
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I recommend the ryzen 1600 over that can be had for £110-120 and blows the i7 4770k out of the water.

1600 vs 7600k let alone the 4770k > https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-ryzen-5-1600-1600x-vs-core-i5-7500k-review .

my 2 pence.

Dan.
 
lltfdaniel said:
I recommend the ryzen 1600 over that can be had for £110-120 and blows the i7 4770k out of the water.

1600 vs 7600k let alone the 4770k > https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-ryzen-5-1600-1600x-vs-core-i5-7500k-review .

my 2 pence.

Dan.
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Yup:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £439.06 (includes shipping: £11.10)​
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This will require to stay with the 3.5GB GTX 970 unless budget is increased.
 
DDM_Historics said:
Motherboard: Asrock H81 Pro BTC
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I cannot believe that OCUK would put a Bitcoin mining based motherboard in a pre-built machine, what an absolute joke. They cost about £30 and were terrible quality, is this what you get when buying pre-built rubbish stock that they couldn't shift so they dump it on unsuspecting people who don't want to build themselves, shame, shame on OCUK for that.

As for your choice OP, I'd go with one of the options as suggested about a Ryzen build since your motherboard is rubbish no point in putting in an i7.

£500 can get you a pretty nice setup, if you don't mind shopping around a bit also you could fit a nice GPU in once you sell yours.


CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard: ASRock - B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
Video Card: PowerColor - Radeon RX 580 8 GB Red Dragon Video Card
Power Supply: SeaSonic - S12II 620 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Total: £565.55

Oh, and the RX 580 comes with 2 games worth £60-100 depending on who you believe. ;)

EDIT: Please tell me you have added an SSD to your current system? If not get one, NOW! Or at least when you upgrade.
 
Journey said:
I cannot believe that OCUK would put a Bitcoin mining based motherboard in a pre-built machine, what an absolute joke. They cost about £30 and were terrible quality, is this what you get when buying pre-built rubbish stock that they couldn't shift so they dump it on unsuspecting people who don't want to build themselves, shame, shame on OCUK for that.

As for your choice OP, I'd go with one of the options as suggested about a Ryzen build since your motherboard is rubbish no point in putting in an i7.

£500 can get you a pretty nice setup, if you don't mind shopping around a bit also you could fit a nice GPU in once you sell yours.


CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard: ASRock - B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
Video Card: PowerColor - Radeon RX 580 8 GB Red Dragon Video Card
Power Supply: SeaSonic - S12II 620 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Total: £565.55
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Ryzen in the used market certainly is a no brainer but with new chips that has changed somewhat but ryzen 3000 series or zen 2 could change that.

Yep if you shop around you can get quite a good deal prehaps.

Hopefully the ops budget reaches to £600 at least for a decent budget gaming system for sure.

Dan.
 
lltfdaniel said:
I recommend the ryzen 1600 over that can be had for £110-120 and blows the i7 4770k out of the water.

1600 vs 7600k let alone the 4770k > https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-ryzen-5-1600-1600x-vs-core-i5-7500k-review .

my 2 pence.

Dan.
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Yes but that requires full board change + ram.

Also, the 4770K is better than the 7600K for games that scale across cores and threads, which is most of the big 2018 games at this point. The 4770K is 4c/8t, the 7600K is 4c/4t. So comparing both in say, Battlefield V online, the 4770K is superior in terms of minimum frames by a significant margin.

Of course if you can afford both by all means get a new Ryzen core + new card, but if I had to scrimp somwhere I'd do it on the CPU as the i7 4th gen it still A1 for 60fps stable gaming in CPU heavy titles, something even the 7600K won't do (since you mentioned it).
 
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