PC Upgrades Help

Avocade · Mar 14, 2014

Okay, so I've been eyeing the crap out of mt GTX 780 Classified. but I realized it might be better dropping back to the 770 Classified for this PC as well and instead using the extra money to upgrade the motherboard and CPU, etc...

EVGA Bronze 600B, i5 3330 3.0, 8 GB Kingston 1600Mhz Ram, DVD-RW, 2 TB WD.

I need with to cost around $900 maybe $950 This includes 770 Classified, at least 1 more of my monitors which prices is $181. which is like $320 left over in my budget.

or if you can think of a better set up. I need to in the future power 3 monitors, I work for an independent game developer so I work within lots of 3d modelling programs and game engines.
Needs good GPU power for rendering and so on.

Bad_Kitty13 · Mar 14, 2014

do you already have a z77 chipset? whats your current mobo?

Avocade · Mar 14, 2014

b75 nameless stole it from an ACER pre-built i bought a year ago.

Bad_Kitty13 · Mar 14, 2014

ok so hear me out without knowing the mobo i have a crazy idea

get this
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/39DmS
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/39DmS/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/39DmS/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($209.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial M500 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card ($529.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $939.96
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-14 06:42 EDT-0400)

and sell the current cpu in its mobo for the price of the monitor. the new i5 3330 are on pcpartpicker for 188 dollars so i dont think you will have a problem selling the cpu and mobo for 181 and you will get the evga of your dreams

Avocade · Mar 14, 2014

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/39Dp1 this is what I did a PC part picker.

Avocade · Mar 14, 2014

I don't need SSDs, currently they don't benefit me really if I should decide to get them I'll buy those down the road

Avocade · Mar 14, 2014

Oh and the motherboard must be Micro ATX no more than 9 1/2" same size basically as the b75 board I put up.

Bad_Kitty13 · Mar 14, 2014

if you dont plan on overclocking the cpu at least go with a h87 chipset but if you ever want to sli you will have to with z87 as it is the only chipset that does so

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/39Dwr
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/39Dwr/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/39Dwr/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($209.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($104.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 770 4GB Video Card ($449.41 @ Amazon)
Monitor: BenQ GW2450 24.0" Monitor ($159.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $924.38
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-14 06:56 EDT-0400)

here you can see the advantages and disadvantages of the different chipsets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1150

Bad_Kitty13 · Mar 14, 2014

here is a matx z87

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/39Dwe
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/39Dwe/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/39Dwe/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($209.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87M Extreme4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 770 4GB Video Card ($449.41 @ Amazon)
Monitor: BenQ GW2450 24.0" Monitor ($159.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $939.38
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-14 06:58 EDT-0400)

Bad_Kitty13 · Mar 14, 2014

are you building this strictly for work in your game developing? or is this for play too?

Avocade · Mar 14, 2014

That's a good build. Now should I got for the full system upgrade or, just upgrade my GPU to the 780 Classified instead. Is it really all that worth as my i5 3330 handles itself pretty well in everything I do.

Avocade · Mar 14, 2014

I play and work on the PC

Bad_Kitty13 · Mar 14, 2014

so long as your not overclocking i would just stick with what you have already and get the monitor and the 780 honestly. the 3330 is just a locked underclocked 3570 and shouldnt have any problem at all handling a 780 and your pcie slot is most likely a 2.0 and gpus cant saturate past that right now any way. i would save the cpu mobo upgrade for when something with a better performance gain comes out. the 4670k only has a 5-7% gain over the 3570k so there really is no point.

Avocade · Mar 14, 2014

You save me again. and yes its a pcie 2.0. Until the 3.0's start giving me a reason to look at it I'll stick with 2.0.

With cooling I've heard you can OC the 3330 to 3.6 which ain't too shabby.

In today's market 4 cores at 3.0 is still more than enough to handle anything you can throw at it. Seeing as though most games and programs aren't optimized to use multiple cores. The only really upside to upgrading to a newer i5 or i7 would just be the faster at which it would take to bake and render down certain details that don't currently cause me problems anyway.

Bad_Kitty13 · Mar 14, 2014

and since you actual would benefit from it try to save up for a cpu/mobo combo in haswell-e or the series after broadwell, haswell-e is upposed to have around a 40-50% gain in tasks that you would benefit from and most likely going to be priced at the x79 prices so you could get a 4 core i7 and mobo for around 500-600. i dont really do any programming or game developing, though it would be awesome, but from the specs i have seen it is more geared toward that side rather than gaming

Avocade · Mar 14, 2014

I think I'll wait till the next fical year to upgrade CPU and motherboard see where we are then. By then most chipsets will have dropped in price and the market for games and such will really not have evolved passed where we are now by much.

Bad_Kitty13 · Mar 14, 2014

true it will be a long time before they make another jump like these next gen games have, quad core optimized and 6gb of ram usage. this will probably stay the standard for the next 4 years

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