Help Needed-upgrade planning

rca33 · Oct 6, 2015

I will be building a system on a very tight budget.

With specs:
pentium G3258
Asus Z97 k
120gb ssd
4gb ram
*no dedicated GPU
Corsair SPEC 01

REASONS:
-i picked G3258 because its cheap and over clockable.
-stick with stock cooler and will overclock only little until i get an after market heatsink.
-no dedicated gpu because G3258 iGPU can run DotA 2 (im fine with low settings), and other games too at low.
-120gb ssd because i need storage only for OS(win10) and Dota 2. I wont store multiple
-ASUS Z97 for overclocking and upgradabilty.

PLANNED UPGRADES:
CPU - will later be upgraded to an i5-4690k
GPU - will later get a dedicated GPU
STORAGE - will later get 1TB HDD
CPU COOLER - will later get maybe a hyper 212

My questions are:
1. what order should i upgrade? or which part should i upgrade first?
2. at what temp should i limit the cpu heat and stop overcloking?
3. If i upgrade the gpu first before the i5, what gpu will i pick that is also ready for the i5?
4. is ASUS Z97 good motherboard?
5. any other suggestions?

P.S. I can only save less than $100 a month.

Supahos · Oct 6, 2015

Gpu first as that processor will feed a faster gpu than the onboard on the i5 has, next probably the hard drive in case u want more stuff than 120gb. Gtx960 is a card that will pretty well shred anything in 1080p at max settings and won't leave you stuck for as long as some higher end stuff that board is fine

bmw-vision · Oct 6, 2015

Definitely the GPU first, it should give you a massive performance improvement. When it comes to overclocking, the max temp listed by Intel is 72c, so that should definitely be obeyed, but I'm not sure when it thermal throttles though.

Newbbuilder11 · Oct 7, 2015

rca33 :

I will be building a system on a very tight budget.

With specs:
pentium G3258
Asus Z97 k
120gb ssd
4gb ram
*no dedicated GPU
Corsair SPEC 01

REASONS:
-i picked G3258 because its cheap and over clockable.
-stick with stock cooler and will overclock only little until i get an after market heatsink.
-no dedicated gpu because G3258 iGPU can run DotA 2 (im fine with low settings), and other games too at low.
-120gb ssd because i need storage only for OS(win10) and Dota 2. I wont store multiple
-ASUS Z97 for overclocking and upgradabilty.

PLANNED UPGRADES:
CPU - will later be upgraded to an i5-4690k
GPU - will later get a dedicated GPU
STORAGE - will later get 1TB HDD
CPU COOLER - will later get maybe a hyper 212

My questions are:
1. what order should i upgrade? or which part should i upgrade first?
2. at what temp should i limit the cpu heat and stop overcloking?
3. If i upgrade the gpu first before the i5, what gpu will i pick that is also ready for the i5?
4. is ASUS Z97 good motherboard?
5. any other suggestions?

P.S. I can only save less than $100 a month.

you can hit 4.0 with stock cooler, i would get it in this order

1. CPU COOLER
2. GPU
3. HDD
4. RAM

Newbbuilder11 · Oct 7, 2015

rca33 :

you can hit 4.0 with stock cooler, i would get it in this order

1. CPU COOLER
2. GPU
3. HDD
4. RAM

I would hold off on the i5 and just use the 3258 until you see performance drops or for a newer system.

A 3258 can give a lower end i5 a run for it's money so it's pretty powerful especially if you OC it to 4.0 on stock you could try 4.3/4.4, but i think 4.4 is over the bar for it unless you get a CPU cooler so a Hyper 212 can easily keep your CPU cool when you get it.

So I suggest you stick with the 3258 OC to 4.4 with the hyper 212 then get a 960/970 more RAM and the 1tb HDD.

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