Time to upgrade the PC

[Vetter2003]

Hello, I'm going to be upgrading my computer this week sometime, I wanted to get some thoughts on what I should get. Budget up to around 600$ US. I'll be using the computer for gaming and internet.

So you know, I'm the type of guy that when I click a button on the computer I want that shit to work now! Computer needs to keep up with my fingers.

 

 

Current System

 

ASUS M4A785-M  motherboard  **Replace

 

2.8ghz AMD Athlon II x4 630         **Replace

 

4GB DDR2         **Replace

 

575W Power supply, had it for years plan on keeping unless i need bigger....

 

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 

 

AOC 2460G4 144mhz monitor

 

Windows 7 Home

 

 

Did a little looking online at computer parts this week and there just seems to be so many... Would like some opinions from some of you that are a little more computer savy than myself.    

 

 

Thanks!

[St0rmSlaSh]

Hmm, well your budget is good. I looked into the motherboard and I cannot find any info on it. Can it support i3 - i7 CPU? As for the CPU, I would suggest an i5 4690k devil's canyon. It is super nice and on amazon it costs 236$. For the motherboard, I don't know what case you have, but if you have an Atx, you should get the MSI Intel Z97 motherboard. It supports cpus from celeron all the way up to i7. and for the ram, I would get maybe just  8gb of ddr3 would not hurt too much. The total: 362$ So you only used roughly half!!

[Dmitriy]

Cpu: Intel Core I5 6600K

Asus Z170 Pro Gaming

Asrock Z170 Extreme6+

Ram Kingston Hyperx Predator 2x8GB 3200Mhz (or another cheaper 2x8GB)

Recommend to buy SSD drive

[Vetter2003]

I'm not sure what brand of case I have, I've had it since 2002 but its big, roomy vented nicely and works great. 

 

 

Cpu: Intel Core I5 6600K

Asus Z170 Pro Gaming

Asrock Z170 Extreme6+

Ram Kingston Hyperx Predator 2x8GB 3200Mhz (or another cheaper 2x8GB)

Recommend to buy SSD drive

 

SSD drive?    that I dont know much about, lol I'm not even sure what I have right now.

[redy.]

What ubergamer said,

 

in addition:

 

for SSD:

- 256GB https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-850-EVO-2-5-Inch-MZ-75E250B/dp/B00OAJ412U/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1471209612&sr=1-2&keywords=samsung+ssd

- 512GB or bigger are priced as follow:

 

you can keep your old HDD for files. The SSD for windows and the games. 256GB is usually efficient. you can play it safe and go 512GB if you have the $$$

 

Whatever you do. Reinstall your windows after the hardware is installed. Then (my recommendation) upgrade to windows 10 for free.

This system will kick ass

Edited August 14, 2016 by redy.

[Krusnik87]

 

 

Whatever you do. Reinstall your windows after the hardware is installed. Then (my recommendation) upgrade to windows 10 for free.

This system will kick ass

<==== Especially since Windows 10 is pretty much optimized for such babies :3

[Vetter2003]

So is DDR4 like the newest and greatest for RAM, I found a pretty nice website where you can kinda piece a PC together  http://www.userbenchmark.com/?redirFrom=userbenchmark.com&

 

What do you think about the i7-6700K ? 

 

 

I kinda pieced together some stuff for a pc--    http://www.userbenchmark.com/PCBuilder/Custom/S16722-M32631.22173.19175.412.90001vsS0-M?tab=MBD  the GPU and HDD i already have

 

i7-6700K

Samsung 850 Evo 250GB

G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB

ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING

 

That would put me at $661   little over budget but its doable. 

[Candycane]

congrats!!

[redy.]

sweet. Thats a cool webpage. Thanks for sharing.

 

hardware wise. you should be totally fine with the i5 (like the Intel Core i5-6600K)

you would spend 100$ more without a big performance boost.

 

you have the SSD

 

the slowest part in your system is the GPU.

[Jobba]

So is DDR4 like the newest and greatest for RAM, I found a pretty nice website where you can kinda piece a PC together  http://www.userbenchmark.com/?redirFrom=userbenchmark.com&

 

What do you think about the i7-6700K ? 

 

 

I kinda pieced together some stuff for a pc--    http://www.userbenchmark.com/PCBuilder/Custom/S16722-M32631.22173.19175.412.90001vsS0-M?tab=MBD  the GPU and HDD i already have

 

i7-6700K

Samsung 850 Evo 250GB

G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB

ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING

 

That would put me at $661   little over budget but its doable. 

 

This seems good but I would go with an i5-6600k and save yourself $70 because they are basically almost the same thing. The 6700K is a bit faster but the 6600K is pretty much future proof for the next half-decade or more.

Personally I'd go with Corsair RAM just because I find them incredibly reliable.

Everything else is really good, consider switching to the 6600K though.

[Vanaraud]

Asrock\Asus, they are both good OC: http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/mainboard/86321-asrock-z170-extreme-6/?page=7 though through generations Asrock has always been the best OC mobo...

 

Do you find it useful if theres Dual BIOS(Asrock) or not? If Clear CMOS switch is convienient at rear IO(when OC it comes handy, instead of taking down case cover and switching jumpers, saves time- Asrock again). ASus has EZ Crash free Bios, whatever that means, googled a bit and nobody seemed to get if working(I´m on secondary BIOS b/c you know, you NEVER will mess up the first one, never with modern foolproof tech;))

Both seem to have decent sound system with Headphone amp going on there too.

Asrock exterem6+ if you necessarily don´t need any of its specs, then its waste of money over ordinary exterem6(+ version has front panel for usb 3.1 adapter included)

http://www.asrock.com/mb/compare.asp?SelectedModel=Z170+Extreme6%2B&SelectedModel=Z170+Extreme6&SelectedModel=Z170M+Extreme4

Etreme 4 has less power phases(could affect CPU OC ability in exterem cases) and less sata ports- for CD\HDD\SSD, don´t notice any other differencies with exterem6, though only 20$ price difference, if not on budget...

 

 

If you can live with little less SSD performance, then bigger is always better http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233949&cm_re=500gb_ssd-_-20-233-949-_-Product

DDR4 over 2666Mhz is not giving any significant boost, only drains the wallet. Check if the RAM(s) will work @ default 1.2V on specified OC speeds. 1.35V might be too much in long run for CPU IMC. Patriot Viper V has decent kits out there, Kingston seems to rock the boat also.

 

I5 has always been a sweet spot between perf\cost, newer games take advantage of i7 Hyper Threading, ET used only 1 core still...

 

Btw whats your PSU, not good idea to fry your new system with 10y old PSU;)

[Vetter2003]

Well I went ahead and ordered parts today!

 

 

i5-6600K

Samsung 850 Evo 250GB 

ASUS Z170

G.Skill Trident 3000 DDR4 2x8

 

Under budget @ $537.36

 

 

Thanks everyone for the input!

[redy.]

sweet!

 

if you want to add: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=LGA+1151+cooler&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ALGA+1151+cooler

But to be honest the out of box coolers are pretty decent since years. A new one might be a bit less noisy...