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[Regy53]

Hi Guys,

posted once before without a great response but I need to make some changes to my system from a hard drive point of view so will do a few things at once. I have around 1k to spend? well I dont have a budget but I suppose I wouldnt want to spend more than 1k...

I currently have on windows 7

gigabyte p67 ud4-b7 motherboard 1155 (wish to upgrade)
4x2 gb ram (wish to upgrade)
2 x 6970 graphics (wish to upgrade)
Antec Darkfleet DF85 (wish to upgrade) must have dustfilters.
I need a new 256gb ssd


OCZ gold power supply (wish to keep)
Sandybridge 2600k o/c to 4.5 on auto (wish to keep?)

Also have blue ray, wireless etc so really need to buy a motherboard and ram that will work with my 2600k chip so I can upgrade my hard drives and start fresh as possible. I have watercooling for my chip and it really runs fine so see no need to get one of them.

I run crossfire 3 monitors and like to play games in this mode

Please help me as I am unsure what to buy having not looked at hardware for some time.

Obviously the case needs to be big enough for graphics cards (been there and got the t shirt)

Thanks
Ross

 

[ExRayTed]

If you're happy with the CPU why do you want to change the motherboard? That's a decent motherboard you have there - if you're not upgrading the CPU, keep it.

That said I've selected a few components below that should give you a good start

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 780Ti DirectCU II 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £479.99
1 x Corsair Graphite 760T Windowed Full Tower Gaming Case - Black (CC-9011044-WW) £144.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77-G1-Sniper 3 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £129.95
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £109.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX24C11BRK2/8-OC) £67.99
Total : £947.87 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 

[Regy53]

If you're happy with the CPU why do you want to change the motherboard? That's a decent motherboard you have there - if you're not upgrading the CPU, keep it.

That said I've selected a few components below that should give you a good start

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 780Ti DirectCU II 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £479.99
1 x Corsair Graphite 760T Windowed Full Tower Gaming Case - Black (CC-9011044-WW) £144.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77-G1-Sniper 3 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £129.95
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £109.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX24C11BRK2/8-OC) £67.99
Total : £947.87 (includes shipping : £12.50).

I only looking for a motherboard as this one was £60 and is over 3 years old now

Just as a graphics card newb, how does that graphics card suit ? is it comparable with 2 x lesser spec cards?

thanks for your rpely

 

[Doogles]

Keep the i7, upgrade the motherboard if you want to and use the money left over to get crossfire R9 290, 16GB Ram is enough for all games. With the money left over you can even watercool!

 

[ExRayTed]

16Gb is overkill for games - better to spend the money elsewhere.

A 780Ti is currently the best single card solution (ignoring the massivley overpriced R9 295)and will murder the 6970 xfire you have currently.