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Title: upgrading pc soon
Post by: Sneakytiger on April 13, 2014, 08:49:34 AM

gonna be upgrading pc soon

current pc specs:

intel xeon quad core @2.13
12gb memory
gfx 760 2gb card
60gb ssd
300gd hdd
1tb hdd

what i'm looking at getting

either i5 4670k or i7 4770k
another 760 card
250gb ssd
3tb hdd
maybe new case as i'm using a gigabyte auroa3d case at mo, might look at a corsair carbide 500r

any tips would be grateful

ps gonna be using it as main pc and my lan pc so not water cooled if i can help it.

Title: upgrading pc soon
Post by: sulky_uk on April 13, 2014, 11:03:15 AM

looks good, have a look here though reference which cpu,

http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1061

think of what you could buy with the extra Â£'s

Title: upgrading pc soon
Post by: Gorion on April 13, 2014, 11:10:28 AM

Within a month or two the Nvidia 880 should launch. Considering your current specs, you shouldn't be hungry for frames; unless you have 30" screens.

As for SSDs read this and it's related articles (http://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endurance-experiment).

Hard drives, WD, Toshiba or Seagate.

Case, if you have cash to spend, take a look at the Cosmos2 by CoolerMaster. It's a beauty.

Finally, X99 Haswell-E should be coming out this year, and that means 8 core, 16 thread cpu's with DDR4 ram.

Up to you really, but since you will also be playing StarCitizen, you should wait a while.

Title: upgrading pc soon
Post by: Twyst on April 15, 2014, 05:45:15 PM

I just pulled the trigger on this upgrade from my Q9660 @ 2.9Ghz + 4G ram:

i5 4670 @ 4.3 Ghz + AlpenfÃ¶hn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler, 16G RAM, MSI Z87 gaming motherboard. Sweet deal @ 440 UKP fom overclockers.co.uk
I expect to play Star Citizen on it very nicely :)

However ....... I shall be keeping my almost as aged nVidia GTX460 for a while yet as my games and finances to not stretch to replacing that as well.
Hopefully I can get a GTX 770 towards the end of the year when the rumoured 880 knocks it's price down.

Basically I don't see move movement in the CPU market @ the price point I'm interested in from now to when SC is released but I do see movement in the GPU market, hence holding off for a bit longer.

Title: upgrading pc soon
Post by: Sneakytiger on May 18, 2014, 09:12:11 AM

yep decided to just upgrade my storage for now, as the new intel broadwell chips will be out soon, so i'm gonna be going for one of those .

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