• Upgrade for less than 200€/256$
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I was planning an upgrade for this 1 year old prebuilt. CPU : AMD Athlon II x3 440 @ 3 GHz RAM : 4 Gigs Motherboard : Pegatron Corporation 2A99 GPU : AMD Radeon HD 7770 [U][B]What I should change :[/B][/U] The CPU, MOBO, and add some RAM. [B][U]What I thought for this upgrade :[/U][/B] CPU : i3-3220 Ivy Bridge | 119.90 € RAM : 8 Gigs of RAM G.Skill Ripjaws X | 39.80 € MOBO : MSI H61M-P20 (G3) | 41.90 € Total : 201.60 € / 257.99 $ Any opinions, improvements I can do on this upgrade ?
Save up and get a Z77 so if you ever get an i5 you can overclock.
What kind of case do you have? A lot of times prebuilts come with custom slotted mobos with holes only for their personal mobos. If you don't check you could be buying parts for a case that cannot hold them unless you do extensive modifications.
Your current system looks fairly balanced right now, you'd be better off saving up and upgrading everything at some point in the future. Of course that is if you're going to be using the computer primarily for gaming. Is there any particular reason why you need a better CPU right now?
I got some more money to spend right now, and thought I would upgrade for an i5. Is the unlocked ("K") version of an i5 is really worth the extra dollars ? I don't want to overclock...
[QUOTE=Fleskhjerta;37921554]I got some more money to spend right now, and thought I would upgrade for an i5. Is the unlocked ("K") version of an i5 is really worth the extra dollars ? I don't want to overclock...[/QUOTE] If you aren't going to overclock it ever then it won't be worth it to you. But if someday down the line you think "Maybe I want to get some extra performance out of it" then you might consider paying a little extra for it.
[QUOTE=Fleskhjerta;37921554]I got some more money to spend right now, and thought I would upgrade for an i5. Is the unlocked ("K") version of an i5 is really worth the extra dollars ? I don't want to overclock...[/QUOTE] You can also just wait till haswell, or whatever comes out. If you aren't going to use the power, there isn't any need to upgrade for the sake of upgrading. I think more than a few people here are guilty of doing that, myself included. Gotta have the newest shiny toys after all.
Things have changed lately, my budget is now around 500€ / 638$ I want to change the graphics card now too... I feel like it is getting old... [B][U]What I thought for this upgrade :[/U][/B] CPU : Intel Core i5 3570K | 209.85€ (267.75$) RAM : 16 Gb of RAM DDR3 Corsair Vengance | 63.99€ (81.64$) (Yes, I need it, I do some rendering on After Effects...) MOBO : Gigabyte H61M-USB3-B3 | 56.90€ (72.59$) (I don't need motherboards with tons loads of things and functions) GPU : VTX3D Radeon HD 7850 OC X-Edition 1 Gb + FarCry 3 Gift | 152.90€ (195.08$) Any opinions / improvements I can do with that upgrade ? Knowing that I don't need anymore decent for a motherboard, I still want to keep it PCI-E Express v3.0 to use my GPU at is fullest. I feel like that an i7 is not required at all, since i'm not doing rendering much + they are simple things to render. I also thought of getting a new mouse (My HP Mouse is good enough, but the middle bouton is broken), and thought of getting [URL="http://www.topachat.com/pages/detail2_cat_est_gaming_puis_rubrique_est_wg_pcsou_puis_ref_est_in10056565.html"]this one[/URL] I know it may be crap, but it would still be better than my HP mouse anyways, so this is enough for me.
You're going to want a different motherboard with a higher end chipset as the H61 doesn't allow CPU overclocking [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1155[/url]. You can find many great P67, Z68, and Z75 boards for under 90€
It goes a little over my budget, plus I don't want to do any overclocking at all, stock clocks are ok for me, and I don't wanna fuck up something with that, since the last time I tried to overclock my GPU, oh god I will remember that forever... at the worst, I could always sell old things, and buy another motherboard later.
If you wouldn't be overclocking, save some money and get an i5-3470. There's no real reason to pay 10 extra for a non k i5-3570 as the clock speed is only increased by .2 GHz. [editline]7th November 2012[/editline] And then used that money saved to try and get a better motherboard.
As I said, I don't want motherboards with tons loads of functions that I will never use (not counting overclocking), so what would be the point of getting a better motherboard with the money I saved ? + with a proccesor that definitely dosen't support overclocking (Not unlocked version)
More expensive boards are almost always going to be better quality and more widely supported with things such as BIOS updates. They use higher quality parts, better layouts, and have more slots for sound cards, capture cards, network cards, etc.
So, not counting the motherboard for now, is the graphics card good ? VTX3D is not selling much cards around here, do you think I can trust them ?
Found another motherboard who is 1€ cheaper (Because it is on sale), and supports overclocking, his chipset is B75, it's the Asus P8B75-M LX, is that motherboard good ?
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Also do you people think I will have enough power for all of this ? I have a 550w PSU
[QUOTE=Fleskhjerta;38524495]Also do you people think I will have enough power for all of this ? I have a 550w PSU[/QUOTE] Looks fine to me. [editline]20th November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Fleskhjerta;38394982]Found another motherboard who is 1€ cheaper (Because it is on sale), and supports overclocking, his chipset is B75, it's the Asus P8B75-M LX, is that motherboard good ?[/QUOTE] I have had some issues with ASUS motherboards, even my friends had. Might just have been us being unlucky I guess.. Bought Intel motherboards and no problem, but it's your budget.
I finally bought my upgrade. [U][B]What I bought[/B][/U] CPU : Intel Core i5 3570k MOBO : Asus P8B75-M LX RAM : Corsair 1333 MHz | 16 Gb GPU : MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC I finally recieved it and will upgrade my pc in the next few hours
[URGENT] I finished upgrading my PC, it all works great, I can succesfully go to the UEFI BIOS and stuff, but whenever I boot at Windows, it boots for like 3 seconds, and when I start to see the colors ball you know, red blue yellow and green, well it does a BSOD for 1/4 of a second and justs reboots, I tried to reboot in Windows Repair Mode as Windows recommended me that, it searched for problems for like 15 minutes, I reboot into normal mode and it stills BSOD's me in the face... What do I do ? Please anwser fast...
[QUOTE=Fleskhjerta;38751945][URGENT] I finished upgrading my PC, it all works great, I can succesfully go to the UEFI BIOS and stuff, but whenever I boot at Windows, it boots for like 3 seconds, and when I start to see the colors ball you know, red blue yellow and green, well it does a BSOD for 1/4 of a second and justs reboots, I tried to reboot in Windows Repair Mode as Windows recommended me that, it searched for problems for like 15 minutes, I reboot into normal mode and it stills BSOD's me in the face... What do I do ? Please anwser fast...[/QUOTE] Re-install winows.
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