Looking to upgrade, Some help with parts please :)

cammey78

Finally upgrading from my 4 year old pc, currently only have about £600 budget...would be great if someone could help me choose the best parts to upgrade for performance and recommend a possible new component/s. Really will only use the Pc for gaming

Current pc is :
Intel Core i5 4670K
MSI Z97 GAMING 5 motherboard
4096MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 290
SSD 850 EVO 500GB
8gb Ripjaws ddr3

Thank's in Advance!

techquest

What is your preference, to stay with Intel or go to AMD Ryzen?

Russ_64

For gaming, I would upgrade the Graphics card to the best you can afford - either Radeon RX Vega or Geforce RTX.

cammey78

I dont really have a preference, best overall bang for buck is the motto i usually do

cammey78

Thank's i'll have a look at those cards! Will my current cpu and ram be fine for them?

techquest

So the AMD Radeon RX VEGA 56 Red Dragon 8GB  is £270, whilst the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB ARMOR OC is £430, both from Scan and miles apart in price and a big chunk out of your£600 budget.

What PSU do you have?

cammey78

I've a Corsair CX750 PSU, hope that is enough for those cards, which of those two would you personally recommend? Would if maybe be best to get the Vega and put the rest towards more ram or something? Thanks for the assistance

techquest

The Radeon RX VEGA 56 Red Dragon 8GB, £270, is slated to be an excellent gpu and requires a 650 W PSU. The RX Vega 64 is about £290 and requires a 750 W PSU and that might stretch your current PSU somewhat.

Search results for 'Radeon RX VEGA 56 Red Dragon 8GB' | SCAN UK

Note both these cards only have an HDMI 4K60 output. They are both PCIE 3.0,  the same as you current MB.

Your MB supports a max of 32GB of memory so you've got plenty of room to upgrade your GSkill Ripjaws ddr3, you could buy 2 x 8GB  for about £93 or go for so you would have 24GB or go 4 x 8GB modules, but shop around for the best price on these.

Amazon.co.uk: 4 x 8gb G.skill ripjaws: Computers & Accessories


Your MB supports LGA 1150 CPU's and your i5 CPU is a good processor. You could upgrade that to an Intel Core i7 4790K S 1150, £290.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-Professional-Processor-Threading-Technology/dp/B00J56YSLM/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_147_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=63BGY59HRHRDN3XA8ZHX

Doing all the above would cost £652 in total but you might get a better deal shopping around and you could drop the total by about £40 if you were to upgrade by 2 x 4GB DDR3 GSkills Ripjaws memory modules so you have 16GB in total.

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If it were me I would go with the Vega RX 56, upgrade the memory and run with the current i5 CPU for a while, which as said is a good CPU anyway.

ChuckMountain

You shouldn't have a problem with that PSU, although nearly 100W more than the 56, the 64 recommends a 750W PSU.  The Corsair is a good unit and will easily cope.

The TDP is 295W plus 85W for the CPU adding various other bits and pieces and you have plenty of headroom in that PSU.  Most sites report it pulling around 400W total system power in gaming, yes if you overclock and stress it more it will pull a bit more but still well within 750W.

The problem is when you get a cheap 750W no brand PSU and it puts out a lot less