Black Friday gaming pc

Nefos

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Hey guys I am planning to upgrade my PC on Black Friday, here is the new config so far

I5-4440 (because of MMOs) £140
MSI B85-G43 £60
+4GB Corsair Vengeance RAM £35(Already have a 4 GB stick)
Best Value 550W PSU- I am planning to change it to an EVGA 500W 500B 80Plus one, just in case, £40
Zalman Z11 Plus case £49
Seagate Barracuda 1TB hdd(already own it)
Sapphire Ghz edition HD 7770 (already own it)(upgrading gtx 760/270x later on, still not sure though)

I am looking for suggestions, what to modify

I am going to use it for mainly gaming and Java programming, with WoW and BF4 at 1080p
OC= I am still unsure about that. I saw that it does not really give big boost for a game to oc your CPU. Does it give noticable performance?
I am open to AMD/Intel/Nvidia, I am not a fanboy
I have a budget of £350 without GPU, Ill do that later on
Prices will go down on Black Friday, not sure about how much, if you could tell me that, it would be great
 
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Do you really want to overclock ? You won't see a big difference in your games , and furthermore , you decrease the life span of your parts.

check this out. The main difference between the Ivy-Bridge and Haswell CPUs is the power consumption. Not really future proof.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3350P 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor (£131.98 @ Dabs)
Motherboard: ASRock B75 PRO3-M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£47.14 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£31.18 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£38.64 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power...

IRONBATMAN

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So what are the parts that you're planning to upgrade ?

This should help

RAM
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120507222651AA24GpJ

PSU
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html

CPU
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-6.html

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For the GPU , I recommend the GTX 770 or GTX 760.
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Nefos

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CPU
MOBO
Plus ram ( I have 4 GB of corsair Vengeance already)
PSU (just to be safe)
Case
GPU later on
that is interesting, 3350p does not deliver less than %10 even for half of the money than 3770k, although I would go Haswell, for future proofing
Is there any info/guessing based last year about the price drops n Black friday?
If 4670k will go £150, ill go with that, for later OC( years later probably)
 

IRONBATMAN

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Do you really want to overclock ? You won't see a big difference in your games , and furthermore , you decrease the life span of your parts.

check this out. The main difference between the Ivy-Bridge and Haswell CPUs is the power consumption. Not really future proof.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3350P 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor (£131.98 @ Dabs)
Motherboard: ASRock B75 PRO3-M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£47.14 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£31.18 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£38.64 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£55.34 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £304.28
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-10 14:39 GMT+0000)
 
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This! AC4 = great game. Plus you're getting more than the value as you get games worth about $60 each with the 770/760.