Is this worth it?

[Alex90uk]

Hi, this is my first post, and hope I have put it in the correct place.

I'm browsing the deals of the day on Amazon UK and this came up;

A sandisk ultra 2 960gb internal SSD normally £230 now £142.

Obv this is today only and to put it into perspective for those with different currencies,

A Samsung 850 evo 250Gb is £56 and the current bestseller, and an Intel 730 250gb is £126.

Is it worth buying the sandisk?

My situation is this, I'm a computer games design student in his second year, I have access to amazing machines on campus to do all my work, but sometimes I'd like to do it at home to, I'm away from my pc visiting family but off the top of my head as it was built by my little brother, it's about 3/4 years old and has inside:

 

Gigabyte Z68AP-D3

i3 2100 3.1Ghz

2x4GB  Corsair vengeance @1600hz

Nvidia GeForce GT 430

ZR Senda 650w

Seagate Barracuda 7200 500GB

Should I just scrap this system or upgrade it?

The things I'd like to run on it are:
unreal engine 4, preferably in epic settings but not needed
3ds max
Zbrush

I don't really game on pc so those aren't an issue, maybe I'd do some fallout 4 modding next summer.

I just want something stable that won't crash if put under pressure.

Thanks in advance for any input.

 

Edit: My Advice needs have changed

[comefightme]

Ssd only gives faster access to ur storage, if u have an i3 and an 1gb gpu, ur com sucks and u should upgrade those first before getting a high capacity ssd.

I suggest getting a low capacity ssd now and upgrade the cpu and gpu first

[shanmu54321]

Hi, this is my first post, and hope I have put it in the correct place.

I'm browsing the deals of the day on Amazon UK and this came up;

A sandisk ultra 2 960gb internal SSD normally £230 now £142.

Obv this is today only and to put it into perspective for those with different currencies,

A Samsung 850 evo 250Gb is £56 and the current bestseller, and an Intel 730 250gb is £126.

Is it worth buying the sandisk?

My situation is this, I'm a computer games design student in his second year, I have access to amazing machines on campus to do all my work, but sometimes I'd like to do it at home to, I'm away from my pc visiting family but off the top of my head as it was built by my little brother, it's about 3/4 years old and has inside:

Bearing in mind I haven't looked inside it for a while

Asus motherboard (I feel like it had z93 or something similar on it) it's blue for sure if that helps

A mid tier i3

1 gb graphics maybe it's gigabyte

Sea gate 1tb prob only 5600

And two sticks of I think it's red crucial 2gb ram

Should I just scrap this system or upgrade it?

The things I'd like to run on it are:

unreal engine 4, preferably in epic settings but not needed

3ds max

Zbrush

I don't really game on pc so those aren't an issue, maybe I'd do some fallout 4 modding next summer.

I just want something stable that won't crash if put under pressure.

Thanks in advance for any input.

I don't think an i3 would be that great for designing. Upgrade your CPU, Motherboard. Get that ssd and you are good to go. Even an i5 4460 would be good.

[alexhelvetica]

Please don't go with that. At least get a GTX 950 and 8GB of Ram, the better CPU would also be nice too.

 

I would go with the FX 8350 since it has 8 threads, but an i5 would do you equally as well.

 

Save up, there is nothing worse than realising 2 months down the track you wasted X moneys on a part that just was not capable for what you want it to do.

 

Also PSU's matter, get any XFX, Seasonic or certain EVGA PSUs such as the B2, G2 or GS.

 

 

Don't get an SSD now, use that money on something better.

[kameshss]

Don't get an SSD!

for now. 

[alexhelvetica]

for now. 

Thank-you, I'll edit that in.

[Alex90uk]

Thanks guys, I appreciate all the input, I should clarify that I was intending on upgrading all of the components on my current system but the Ssd was on sale today, so I was just thinking for the future it might have been a good buy.

I really wish I could remember my exact motherboard to see if it is worth sticking with, did the on I say sound correct, is it a worthy platform to upgrade upon?

The reason I'd prefer to upgrade this system is because I live in uni accommodation and at the end of that I'll hopefully be moving from the UK to either Seattle or San Francisco, and I'd probably leave my PC behind, money isn't the huge issue but I'd still like to have enough to get a UK drivers license as I'd rather learn on the roads I know then have everything flipped rather than have my mind blown later on, and obv migrating won't be cheap and am saving up.

I might be a little slow on replies what with Boxing Day, thanks for the replies, and happy holidays.

[Alex90uk]

Hey, i'm back from the family home and rather than making a new thread I thought it would be better to post here, so from that list there; Keeping the price to about £200/$300 max, what's the best way to improve performance for a games design workload, so rendering, building lighting, compiling code and some actual testing in engine.

 

Gigabyte Z68AP-D3

i3 2100 3.1Ghz

2x4GB  Corsair vengeance @1600hz

Nvidia GeForce GT 430

ZR Senda 650w

Seagate Barracuda 7200 500GB

 

Also I run 2 screens at 1440x900 if that impacts anything.

 

I would of done this spend £40 buying another two sticks of corsair 4gb and fill up my two empty slots, and then banged my head agaisnt a wall about deciding what to spend the rest on, a new CPU or a new GPU? or split the difference? or just wait and save up?

 

Like i said this pc is what ill be stuck with for the next year and a half, but for real intensive tasks i can go to uni and use them pc's it's mainly just so i can work without crashes at home, what im using right now can handle the first half my dsemesters but when it counts in the second half starts to chug up real bad.

 

Edit: I think my motherboard is holding me back on options right or is this compatible?

Intel Core i5 4690K Processor (3.5 GHz, 6 MB Cache, LGA1150 Socket)