Upgrading my pc advice please

[Winston]

Lo folks

Right my brother wants a new computer and is giving me £600 to build him one

I'm going to be using a combination of my old components and some new bits, giving me a good upgrade opportunity, he's alright with this by the way

So how's best to go about it?

This is my basket upto now, any advice on changes etc? Thanks in advance



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[Fire_fly]

Are you planning an X-Fire upgrade in the future?

Have you got a Mechanical HDD for data?

 

[Winston]

Doubt it

 

[Fire_fly]

What is your total budget?

 

[Fire_fly]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £173.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards w/ FARCRY3 & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £149.99
1 x Samsung S23A350H 23" Widescreen LED Monitor - Glossy Black £139.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £79.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £28
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £761.83 (includes shipping : £19.10).



Better case and PSU (still provides enough W) and a larger screen.

E: if you can stretch the budget a little add one of these so you can better overclock the CPU.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-037-AL&groupid=701&catid=2330&subcat=2337

 

[Winston]

What is your total budget?

Pretty much the £600 but felt the need to upgrade the gtx

 

[Winston]

I've got a thermalright ultra xtreme cpu cooler that I'll get the 1155 bracket for £11?

 

[Fire_fly]

Just over budget, but I have had to sacrifice the SSD. They are easy to add as upgrades later.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £173.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards w/ FARCRY3 & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £149.99
1 x Samsung S22B300BS 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Glossy Black £99.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £28
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £633.88 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 

[Winston]

I'll be giving him my X25 SSD so the 830 was for me
I'll be keeping my PSU so any one that will run the ip35, e8400 & gtx460 will do

 

[Winston]

Sorry posts are a little basic, on my phone atm