Hi all, I had something of a accident with my old big rig, i split my paint pot of water on it by accident, thereby rendering the graphic card and motherboard to be fully damaged. So it got me thinking with uni now a week away i need a somewhat of a upgrade from old i5200k cpu to something a bit more modern, i am going to be studying media production so i need something with alot of cores or a newish intel i5/i7. The other factor is i want it to be matx for easier moving about as im disabled and im finding it increasing hard to build and carry big pc's these days. Budget: £500 + - £100 Main uses of intended build: video editing and some gaming Parts required: Cpu,Motherboard,graphics Will you be overclocking: no Extra information about desired system: Cool and quiet. Case: ? Mobo: ? CPU: i5 or amd 8 core RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance GFX: ? prefer geforce for shadowplay. PSU: corsair 620 watt SSD: 120gb corsair HDD: 2TB Seagate Barracuda cheers, mike
Are you interested in overclocking at all? and what's your budget? I would advise against an 8 core AMD on a mATX board. AMD's mATX boards are very old now and most will throttle the CPU speeds even at stock speeds due to the lack of VRM cooling.
500 is my budget thereabouts i can go slightly more if i have to but then i probably buy it in 2 different paychecks. i'm not a keen overclocker, i have bought pre overclock bundles before but i more interested in casual games and rendering my videos for youtube.
might go for this for the new case: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/cors...r-gaming-performance-case-with-usb-30-w-o-psu
memory (2x4gb), psu 620 watt, 2 ssd's and 2 tb hdd, dvd drive. wanting to switch to a h60 enclosed water loop for the cpu or something similar.
Having those things will make your budget stretch a bit further in the cpu / gpu departments so basically what you're looking for is: CPU - i5ish Cooler - Mobo - GPU - Case - (mATX) All for £500, right? With this considered I'm looking at the following: i5 4690k - £180 Silverstone TJ08B case - £65 Gigabyte GA-Z97M-DS3H mobo - £70 H60 2013 - £60 2gb 750Ti - £100 Extra £20 to spend on fans etc!
Obviously if you wanted a different case you'll be able to allocate more or less budget on GPU and the like. Are you definitely sure your old CPU / GPU are dead?
yeah i've tried the gpu on another pc and i seen the "burn" marks where the water had it, not so sure on my cpu but i think im just going to sell it and upgrade.
