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Hay,
I'm totally out of the loop!
What cpu/mobo/ram combo would you recommend for 500e?
Atm Ive a core2duo(3.2mhz),asus p5n-d and 4 gigs of ram.
keeping my aging HD 5850 1gig for the moment .

Cheers

Genghiz Cohen

What kind of PSU do you have?

Item|Price
Intel Core i5-4570 Box, LGA1150|€169.51
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming, ATX, Sockel 1150|€99.00
8GB-Kit Crucial Ballistix Sport Series DDR3-1600, CL9|€62.23
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€349.73

Once you scrape €200 more for a graphics card, something like a GTX760 will have you gaming quite comfortably ay 1080p.

Nice one,
super tempted now......

Edit PSU is 600/700 watts

AntDub

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

What kind of PSU do you have?

Item|Price
Intel Core i5-4570 Box, LGA1150|€169.51
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming, ATX, Sockel 1150|€99.00
8GB-Kit Crucial Ballistix Sport Series DDR3-1600, CL9|€62.23
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€349.73

Once you scrape €200 more for a graphics card, something like a GTX760 will have you gaming quite comfortably ay 1080p.

Hi, just check the mobo, I think that's an overclocking board but the CPU isn't overclockable. If I'm right either change the Mobo or go with the 4670k for €35 more.

Noted,
dont think I'll be buying for a few weeks tho anyway

SterlingArcher

May as well be looking at a "Z97" Mobo if overclocking.

Or personally I'd go with a H97 ( 70-90) depends which brand.
Xeon 1230. 205 euro.

Crucial ballistic 8 gig ram 1600. 59 euro.

And an SSD. Crucial 120 gig 56 euro.

Asus H97 plus 84

Approx Total 412. Delivered

With the rest of the 500 budget throw in a new better cooling/quieter case to house your new parts.

Antec one- 50 euro. Corsair carbide 300r- 60 , fractal design r4 -85. Nanoxia deep silence 1 -90

different price ranges, but all good cases.

No need to change the case,
I have a cooler master cosmos s.
Deffo interested in a quieter cooler for the cpu.
I have a cooler master seidon on my current cpu so something like that .

Actually does anybody know if a lga775 cooler fits a 1150?

SterlingArcher

Cool Master Seidon 120M?

Yes.

Genghiz Cohen

AntDub was correct about the mobo-cpu combo and Sterling has a very good point about throwing a SSD in there.

Option Cheap:

Item|Price
8GB-Kit Crucial Ballistix Sport Series DDR3-1600, CL9|€62.23
Gigabyte H87-HD3, ATX|€80.96
Intel Core i5-4670 Box, LGA1150|€187.19
Crucial M500 120GB SATA 6GB/s 6,4CM (2,5") 7mm|€56.99
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€406.36

Option Awesome:

Item|Price
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming, ATX, Sockel 1150|€112.87
8GB-Kit Crucial Ballistix Sport Series DDR3-1600, CL9|€62.23
Crucial M500 240GB SATA 6GB/s 6,4CM (2,5") 7mm|€89.99
Intel Core i5-4670K Box, LGA1150|€200.71
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€484.79

SSDs make everything better.
Everything.

You'll be driving to work in a good mood because of how snappy your PC is now.

I'd get the 240GB if you plan on gaming, I was constantly having to reorganise my games on my old SSD.
Keep movies and music on your magnetic HDD.

I had actually ordered a SSD during the week in an attempt to inject some life into my machine.
its only a 120gig.
raging now as that 240 is only a bit more expensive
oh well.
I do game but always kept the steam library on another HHD anways

Genghiz Cohen

urbanledge wrote: »

I had actually ordered a SSD during the week in an attempt to inject some life into my machine.
its only a 120gig.
raging now as that 240 is only a bit more expensive
oh well.
I do game but always kept the steam library on another HHD anways

Use SteamMover to move the games you are currently playing to your SSD. Then use it again to move them back to your HDD when you are done. No redownload/reinstall necessary.

vibe666

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Use SteamMover to move the games you are currently playing to your SSD. Then use it again to move them back to your HDD when you are done. No redownload/reinstall necessary.

Also, (unless things have changed recently) I've noticed that once a (non-steam) game is installed, it will still run quite happily even if the installation directory is moved as long as you move your shortcuts too.

I ended up with a ropey SSD that kept getting corrupted and needed wiping and Windows re-installing every couple of weeks, so I put in a secondary HDD and installed all my games (and docs and settings etc.) and probably 90% of the games still worked perfectly from the other drive even after windows was wiped.