Upgrade Or Full Rebuild?

[Zaven_2110]

Ive been looking around on overclockers.co.uk and ive found they have some pretty neat bundles, but they are at the very top end of my budget so i was wondering if i could get any advice on what to keep form my current pc if i was to upgrade.

 

My current rig:

- fx-4100 stock cooler

- some horribly laid out mATX motherboard from gigabyte

- 8GB corsair xms3 1333Mhz (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-328-CS&groupid=701&catid=8)

- sapphire 270x

- EVO Labs 700W 80+ PSU (local computer shop recommended it, never heard of the brand outside smaller computer shops so was hesitant to buy but is yet to let me down)

- 500GB and 1TB HDD

 

Ideally i would like intel/nvidia over amd since i have had a few bad experiences with amd (regret not spending extra £30 for the 670 at the time)

The 970 is what i would like to aim for with either something around an i5-46XX or of possible an i7-47XX, i know there are some cheap 120GB ssd's on overclockers so i may as well add one of them.

 

I would like to be able to play new games at 1080p 30-60 fps on as close to max settings as possible and i believe the 970 does that quite well. 

I was hoping that i could reuse my ram and hdd's and maybe my psu (not sure though) so that would leave me with about £650-£750 for GPU/CPU/Motherboard/Case once you take away cost of SSD.

 

Notes: i would like the case to be as small as possible so i can take it to friends to play and i would really rather everything came from Overclockers.co.uk  

 

 

But this is where i cant decide if i should just buy a whole new system because i found this:

 

- Case: Bitfenix Prodigy Mini ITX Case - White
- Power Supply: OCZ ZS Series 750W PSU
- CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K 3.40GHz Ivybridge Processor 
- Motherboard: Asrock Z77E-ITX Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 mini ITX Motherboard
- Cooler: OcUK H2 Flo Extreme CPU Cooler
- RAM: Corsair Vengeance White 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual 

- Solid State Primary Drive: OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD

- Hard Drive: Seagate 1TB HDD
- Graphics Card: KFA2 Nvidia GTX 680 2GB
- Sound: High Definition 7.1 Onboard Sound Card
- Optical Drive: Hitachi Blu-Ray Reader / DVD±RW Drive - OEM

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-014-EP

 

For £690!  I know its not the newest spec but it is on sale from over £1000 so i was wondering if its any good. (i did post this before but i got very mixed answers so im going to put it here aswell)

 

 

I had a look around for something more up to date and i found a pretty good bundle for £740:

 

- BitFenix Phenom / Prodigy M (is there an obvious choice between the two?)

- i5-4670 3.8GHz boost    (stock cooler)

- Asus H81M-K micro atx    (This and the PSU are only things im not sure about with it being so cheap, but i thought maybe it would be made up for by having a better CPU and GPU?)

- 8GB TeamGroup Vulcan Gold 1600MHz Dual Channel

- Nvidia GTX 970 (i assume reference)

- Samsung 120GB 840 Evo SSD    (i have a 500GB or a 1TB from my current PC that i can use for storage)

- Super Flower 450W    (Thats all it says so i have no idea what model it is)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-430-OE

 

Just wondering if this would be better or worse since its still within my budget but there are a couple of parts there im not sure about. 

 

 

So yeah ive been probably overlooking something but  ive only slept 3 hours in the last 2 days so im quite tired.

 

 

Edit: Another option i have is to buy parts on here over time http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Zaven2110/saved/XPjqqs but i dont know how long it will take since in dont have a stable job.

[Mr.Reggin]

you need at lest 250GB SSD storage!

[Zaven_2110]

you need at lest 250GB SSD storage!

 

just for os? i only plan on having 2 or 3 games on it at any one time since i dont play that many different games at once. even without ~20GB taken up for the games at any one time 120GB should be enough shouldn't it?

[Mr.Reggin]

just for os? i only plan on having 2 or 3 games on it at any one time since i dont play that many different games at once. even without ~20GB taken up for the games at any one time 120GB should be enough shouldn't it?

if you think so, I thought 250GB are enough for me, but then I got me a 2nd 250GB SSd, because it wasnt.

[Zaven_2110]

if you think so, I thought 250GB are enough for me, but then I got me a 2nd 250GB SSd, because it wasnt.

 

wow ok, i guess it all adds up after a while!

[asker509]

wow ok, i guess it all adds up after a while!

Especially with games getting so much bigger

[Mr.Reggin]

Especially with games getting so much bigger

yeah....Titanfall has e.g. 50GB and bf4 is very big too 

[Guest]

The Superflower 450W psu will more than likely be the Golden Green HX. They are good power supplies.

 

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-002-SF&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2057

[Zaven_2110]

The Superflower 450W psu will more than likely be the Golden Green HX. They are good power supplies.

 

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-002-SF&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2057

 

That looks ok, but what about that motherboard? Its only £37 so it cant possibly be any good can it?

[Guest]

That looks ok, but what about that motherboard? Its only £37 so it cant possibly be any good can it?

It is just a basic no frills board so that is why it is only that price i.e You only get a couple of Ram slots, and 2 x SATA 6GB/s ports. 

 

You can ask them to put a different board in if you want something a bit better. 

 

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-620-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2813

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-509-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2813

[timemachine]

just for os? i only plan on having 2 or 3 games on it at any one time since i dont play that many different games at once. even without ~20GB taken up for the games at any one time 120GB should be enough shouldn't it?

 

 

After OS and updates itll take 60gb away from you

[Spev]

if you think so, I thought 250GB are enough for me, but then I got me a 2nd 250GB SSd, because it wasnt.

I thought most people just store games on an HDD though?