Upgrading 5 yr old PC

ajtupman

ajtupman

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I'm a gamer who is looking to upgrade his 5 year old home built PC.

My current set up is an Asus P5Q Pro motherboard with a Q6600 Quad core CPU & 4gb of ram. I've only recently upgraded the graphics card to a Radeon HD6950 - 2gb ram.

This is all being powered by an Antec Quattro 850 PSU which I think will still be ok for the new set up.

Oh yes, my case is an Antec 900.

I'm looking for a motherboard (preferably Asus), i5 or i7 processor & 8 - 16 gb of ram (either a bundle or individual parts, I don't mind). My budget is £500.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

AJ
 
Sorry but going to piggyback this thread my current set up is almost the same apart from a motzart tx case which is nothing less than huge.

Componets are almost the same q6600 at 3.9gh but under water cooling which I must confess getting bored of now. Changing anything is a pain bleeding the system testing and then going again. Looking for a upgrade have monitor os psu maybe the case although it is a little big.

Looking to get at least a gtx 670 and something that will last a while. Got to be ivybridge and happy to build my own. Also have delta fans so looking for some peace and quiet (anyone remember the carrot test?)

Budget around a grand been so long a little out of touch. Any help welcome.

Cheers.
 
Dram if you want tiny but strong how about this, will have the footprint of a sheet of A4 and quiet to boot, don't expect a massive CPU OC though it should do a modest one.


YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 670 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £285.95
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Adata XPG SX900 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (ASX900S3-256GM-C) £154.99
1 x ASRock Z77E-ITX Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £123.98
1 x Silverstone Sugo SG05 with 450W Power Supply - All Black ( SST-SG05BB USB 3.0) £114.98
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (S (HD-255-SE) £70.00
1 x Adata XPG Gaming v1.0 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (AX3U1600GC4G9-2G) £38.99
1 x Silverstone SST-NT06-E CPU-Cooler £28.99
1 x Samsung SN-208BB/BEBE Slimline 8x DVD±RW SATA Drive - OEM £18.98
1 x Akasa Slimline Optical SATA Cable (AK-CB050) £2.99
Total : £1,033.94 (includes shipping : £11.75).




Ajt - If your just gaming then apparently the 3570k is more than enough however theres room in the budget to a 3770k just make sure you go retail for the 3 year warranty.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Samsung Green 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual/Quad Channel Kit (MV-3V4G3D/US) £113.98
1 x Asus P8Z77-V LX Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £99.98
Total : £405.35 (includes shipping : £9.50).

 
Gav 881

Thanks for the help, that's more or less exactly what I was looking for except I'd forgotten to add the cpu fan/cooler to my wants list...

There's a bundle out this week at:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-112-OE&groupid=43&catid=2053&subcat=

Which is £455 for the 16gb version already overclocked, do you think this would be a good buy?

Oh, and yes it'll be mainly used for gaming, with the usual addiction of youtube video watching :-)

Once again, thanks for your help...

AJ
 
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