Upgrading from old i5-2500k. What to keep what to sell.

[flyinmunky]

So this year seems to be upgrade time. My main reason for upgrading is Gaming, VR and all round use.

My current system is:

GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz

MSI P67A-GD55 Intel P67

GeIL 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz

Titan Fenrir Evo CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775LGA1156LGA1155LGA1366AMD K8AM2AM2+AM3)

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache

Corsair TX 850W ATX SLI Compliant Power Supply

Asus VG278H 27" TRUE 120Hz 3D Widescreen LED Monitor

NZXT Phantom Enthusiast Full Tower Case - Black


Im thinking of keeping the case, PSU, Monitor and the 1TB drive as a storage device.

Can the Titan CPU cooler fit on a i7 8700k? Doubt it but thought id check.

New build I'm thinking of will be:

i7 8700k
16gb RAM
500gb SSD, probably the Samsung 850 evo.
GPU will be the 2080 or 1180 etc Whatever they decide to name it.

I wont be doing overclocking or running SLI graphics cards so what currently is the best priced MOBO which has the most important features and performance is good?

Cheers guys.

 

[Pocah]

Just a thought here, but any new board should support an NVMe like the Samsung 960. You want to get one of those if you can, they are a lot faster than a standard SSD and these days not much price difference. Just make sure you get a motherboard that doesn't position the NVMe under the graphics card. There is a new Gigabyte Z370 UD3P on the way, which should be really good and

http://uk.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z370-UD3H-rev-10#kf

RAM of course will cost you, it's pricey at the moment. I would suggest something like Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3000C15. Although that is slight overclocking, it most certainly will run without issue and it is popular ( it's the biggest seller for 7700K and 8700K systems ) and so very cost effective at the moment. If you search around it's relatively cheap.

 

[flyinmunky]

Just a thought here, but any new board should support an NVMe like the Samsung 960. You want to get one of those if you can, they are a lot faster than a standard SSD and these days not much price difference. Just make sure you get a motherboard that doesn't position the NVMe under the graphics card. There is a new Gigabyte Z370 UD3P on the way, which should be really good and

http://uk.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z370-UD3H-rev-10#kf

RAM of course will cost you, it's pricey at the moment. I would suggest something like Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3000C15. Although that is slight overclocking, it most certainly will run without issue and it is popular ( it's the biggest seller for 7700K and 8700K systems ) and so very cost effective at the moment. If you search around it's relatively cheap.

Thanks, i will look into the NVMe Samsungs, i have seen some at decent prices. Any ideas on if my old CPU cooler will work? Or can you recommend something that's not massive and good enough, again i wont be doing any large over clocking.

 

[Pocah]

Thanks, i will look into the NVMe Samsungs, i have seen some at decent prices. Any ideas on if my old CPU cooler will work? Or can you recommend something that's not massive and good enough, again i wont be doing any large over clocking.

Yes I think the cooler will be fine. The 8700K doesn't need any special cooling unless you are going to overclock, then it gets hot real fast. But I have an 8700K that isn't overclocked and it will achieve most tasks without even getting warm. One word of warning though, Asus motherboards overclock the CPU by default so they produce a lot more heat under load. Luckily you can switch it off in the BIOS, but some people unfortunately run the default without knowing, and wondering why their cpu gets a tad warm at times.