Wanting to make a few upgrades.

Nexozable

Nexozable

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Heya!

I'm wanting to make the upgrade to an Intel I5 2500k processor. I've got a GTX560 TI card which I'm happy with and don't want to upgrade it as of yet. And I've already have a CPU cooler installed for my PC which will work with the CPU I'm wanting to get and a 650WAT Corsair Enthusiast.

The parts I'm planning on grabbing are the
Intel i5-2500K
Asus P8Z68-V LX Motherboard
Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Memory 8GB
1TB Hitachi Deskstar

And I'm pretty stuck on what PC case to grab. I was thinking of grabbing a Cooler Master Scout case but I'm not sure if the GTX560 TI would fit inside it due to the case being small.

Aside from helping me if the Cooler Master Scout case would work for my graphics card how well would this build handle games like Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike. I don't really plan to be able to run games like Battlefield 3 and all the high demanding games at like 10,000 FPS or whatever. I mostly just wanna be able to play games like TF2, CSS, Diablo 3 smoothly with no performance issues.

Thanks in advance.
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £83.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £52.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9) £39.95
Total : £365.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).



THe ivybridge CPUs have been released today! They use less power, are clocked ever so slightly faster and have a much improved IGP. This should also improve intel quick sync i would hope.

The Z77 mobos have PCI-Express 3 slots and to use it you NEED an ivybridge CPU. It's £10 more for ivybridge and well worth the extra. The mobos also have lucid MVP which will increase your framerates whilst gaming.....z68 doesnt have this, they are pretty much defunct now
 
beejjacobs said:
What sort of budget?


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £83.99
1 x Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (0F10383) £74.99
1 x CM Storm Scout Gaming Case - Black £69.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9) £39.95
Total : £457.00 (includes shipping : £11.75).



Unless your 560Ti is a large non-reference design it'll fit :)
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Oh goodness, I forgot put down my budget, sorry about that. But just around £450-500 was the amount I'd able to spend. And my card is a MSI Twin Frozr II, I'm assuming that's an non reference?
 
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