Approximate Purchase Date: e.g.: As soon as possible. But there is no urgency.
Budget Range: £800 -£900
My first build don't want to spend too much.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, surfing the net, watching videos/movies.
Are you buying a monitor: No
Parts to Upgrade: See current build below, possibly the power supply. CD Drive.
Do you need to buy OS: No - but slightly confused, see current build below.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Amazon, pcword, dabs, maplin or any other respectable sites, only brought miscellaneous parts, ie external harddrives/cd drives.
Location: Kent, England, United Kingdom.
Parts Preferences: Current build is AMD CPU only ever had AMD but don't particualy mind.
Overclocking: No
SLI or Crossfire: No
Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080 for gaming, but have a desktop of 3840 x 1080, was going to go 3 monitors but don't think I will bother if it requires multiple graphics cards/and spending more then I would like too.
Additional Comments: Currently most demanding games I think I have in my steam library:
Skyrim Special edition, Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor, GRID 2, GTA V
And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: About time I upgraded my current build.
Current build:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD - Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz Quad-Core OEM/Tray Processor
Note: stock CPU cooler.
Motherboard: Asus - M4A77TD ATX AM3 Motherboard
Memory: Kingston - ValueRAM 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1333 Memory
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card (£401.15 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Thermaltake - VJ60001N2Z ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: Thermaltake - EVO Blue 2.0 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
Optical Drive: Sony - AD-7260S-01 DVD/CD Writer
Optical Drive: LG - BH14NS40 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer
Total: £405.10
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Build I am looking at:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel - Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£178.14 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: *Gigabyte - GA-B250M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£65.12 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: *Crucial - 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£83.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: *OCZ - TRION 150 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£112.49 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: *Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£54.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: *MSI - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card (£324.98 @ Novatech)
Case: Deepcool - DUKASE V2 ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: *SeaSonic - 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£68.80 @ Alza)
Other: CableMod WideBeam Magnetic LED Strip RGB Kit - 30cm / 15 LEDs
Total: £888.51
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-07 20:45 BST+0100
So what’s the advice I need? Well I just took that above build form the pcpartpicker build guides. Should I take more parts from my currently build ie. CPU? Power supply? Obviously the CPU would need a MB with a AMD socket?
Was thinking of getting an SSD for the windows OS and to install games and just using a HDD for general storage of music photos etc. Now about the OS I have the windows 7 CD that came with my current pc, which was built by my local pc shop, so would I still be able to use that copy of windows?
Also what whould I do about my old pc, depending what -if any- old parts I use if i were to sell it I would have to replace the parts I have taken. Might as well not bother and just sell it as it is? But yet again the question of windows OS again, I would need to sell it with a different -new- copy of windows If I am able to use my current windows 7. Hopes this makes sence.
Thanks for any feedback and advice, this is also my first build, nervous but I have a comptia A+ cert so I should be okay.
Budget Range: £800 -£900
My first build don't want to spend too much.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, surfing the net, watching videos/movies.
Are you buying a monitor: No
Parts to Upgrade: See current build below, possibly the power supply. CD Drive.
Do you need to buy OS: No - but slightly confused, see current build below.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Amazon, pcword, dabs, maplin or any other respectable sites, only brought miscellaneous parts, ie external harddrives/cd drives.
Location: Kent, England, United Kingdom.
Parts Preferences: Current build is AMD CPU only ever had AMD but don't particualy mind.
Overclocking: No
SLI or Crossfire: No
Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080 for gaming, but have a desktop of 3840 x 1080, was going to go 3 monitors but don't think I will bother if it requires multiple graphics cards/and spending more then I would like too.
Additional Comments: Currently most demanding games I think I have in my steam library:
Skyrim Special edition, Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor, GRID 2, GTA V
And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: About time I upgraded my current build.
Current build:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD - Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz Quad-Core OEM/Tray Processor
Note: stock CPU cooler.
Motherboard: Asus - M4A77TD ATX AM3 Motherboard
Memory: Kingston - ValueRAM 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1333 Memory
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card (£401.15 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Thermaltake - VJ60001N2Z ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: Thermaltake - EVO Blue 2.0 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
Optical Drive: Sony - AD-7260S-01 DVD/CD Writer
Optical Drive: LG - BH14NS40 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer
Total: £405.10
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-07 20:44 BST+0100
Build I am looking at:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel - Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£178.14 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: *Gigabyte - GA-B250M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£65.12 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: *Crucial - 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£83.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: *OCZ - TRION 150 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£112.49 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: *Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£54.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: *MSI - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card (£324.98 @ Novatech)
Case: Deepcool - DUKASE V2 ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: *SeaSonic - 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£68.80 @ Alza)
Other: CableMod WideBeam Magnetic LED Strip RGB Kit - 30cm / 15 LEDs
Total: £888.51
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-07 20:45 BST+0100
So what’s the advice I need? Well I just took that above build form the pcpartpicker build guides. Should I take more parts from my currently build ie. CPU? Power supply? Obviously the CPU would need a MB with a AMD socket?
Was thinking of getting an SSD for the windows OS and to install games and just using a HDD for general storage of music photos etc. Now about the OS I have the windows 7 CD that came with my current pc, which was built by my local pc shop, so would I still be able to use that copy of windows?
Also what whould I do about my old pc, depending what -if any- old parts I use if i were to sell it I would have to replace the parts I have taken. Might as well not bother and just sell it as it is? But yet again the question of windows OS again, I would need to sell it with a different -new- copy of windows If I am able to use my current windows 7. Hopes this makes sence.
Thanks for any feedback and advice, this is also my first build, nervous but I have a comptia A+ cert so I should be okay.
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