Upgrading CPU, motherboard & ram

[Archie11]

Hi all,

looking to upgrade my CPU, Motherboard & RAM.

I will be mostly using it for video converting, encoding, burning and one two other stuff...
Not really gaming, maybe the odd Football Manager .

Not to sure if i will overclocking the CPU, as i haven't done it before. Will it benefit be on what I'll be doing?

Was looking at:-

CPU: intel core i5 4670k / Intel Core i5 3570K? or anything you think is better
Motherboard:?
Ram:?


Any recommendation on what would be good to get, looking at further proof material.

Many thanks,

Archie

 

[lithuan1an]

Hi.
Can you tell us what is your budget or you just want a good pc for money?

If you don't want to overclock CPU, don't buy unlocked one, it doesn't worth and you won't see almost any difference.
Haswell vs Ivy? In my opinion haswell doesn't worth money. It's ~15% more expensive, and gives about 10% more performance, which you won't notice. My offer - i5-3350p. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116782)

For motherboard - Asus z87 - A (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131981) or cheaper Asrock Pro4 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157381)

RAM - G.SKILL 2*4 GB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231460)

 

[Archie11]

Thanks for getting back to me lithuan 1 an.

Was looking spending up to 350£.

your offer looks good.

one thing, on the ram - 2*4 GB - do you think that's enough? or maybe double it?

 

[lithuan1an]

It's more than enough. For this system even 6GB is enough. You will notice when you buy that almost all of the time you are using not more than 3 GB of RAM

 

[Archie11]

Thanks for your help.

Going to place an order at the end of the week.