Help with upgrading my budget build limited cash £200 spend limit

noobbuild · Dec 6, 2016

Hi I am new to building and I am looking to upgrade my pc that I build with spares and budget parts. I am currently using:

MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card

Corsair CXM 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply

Cooler Master Seidon 120V VER.2 76.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Phanteks Enthoo Pro ATX Full Tower Case

AMD Athlon 860k Black Edition

Cheap £30 mATX mobo

16gb DDR3 RAM

I am looking to upgrade my CPU and Motherboard but would like advice on what to get in the range of £200, I am also looking to add another 970 in the future. Also, someone said Overclocking could be a cheaper short term option with a new Motherboard, would this be worth it?

All help/advice is greatly appreciated

Gam3r01 · Dec 6, 2016

You will need to save up a bit more to make a meaningful upgrade:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£188.75 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-DGS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£49.58 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£49.97 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £288.30
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-06 19:45 GMT+0000

noobbuild · Dec 6, 2016

would an i5-4690k or an i5-6600k be a better option?

Gam3r01 · Dec 6, 2016

I wouldnt recommend a haswell platform at this point in time.
The 6600k would be a marginally better processor, but it will cost you more, along with the Z170 motherboard.

logainofhades · Dec 6, 2016

Gam3r01 :

Haswell makes sense, because they could reuse their ram. With that budget, they are looking at used hardware, though.

ScrewySqrl · Dec 6, 2016

Alernately, an H110, 8 GB of DDR4-2133 and a i3-6100 would fit within that 200-quid budget:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£107.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus H110M-K Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£47.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: PNY Anarchy 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£43.00 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £198.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-06 22:05 GMT+0000

the 6100 is still a significant step up from the 860K, and the CPU could be upgraded to a Kaby Lake i5 or i7 next year

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