Need upgrade help.

[SoBlurry]

Needing to upgrade my PC.

I have a R9 280 in there so thats fine but my FX6300 is slowing me down when it comes to arma and maxing other games.

500w EVGA PSU

Needing a new mobo with the cpu.

Was thinking skylake.

Any recommendations?

-Blur

[Streetguru]

Needing to upgrade my PC.

What's your budget

[SoBlurry]

What's your budget

At most I'm willing to pay around £200 - £300 with both included. Future proofing:)

[HKZeroFive]

I'd honestly go for this:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£175.85 @ Amazon UK) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£24.98 @ Novatech) 

Motherboard: ASRock Z97 PRO3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£74.58 @ Dabs) 

Total: £275.41

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-27 01:30 GMT+0000

 

OR if you're keen on Skylake:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£155.00 @ Amazon UK) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£24.98 @ Novatech) 

Motherboard: ASRock Z170 Pro4S ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£84.99 @ Ebuyer) 

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£42.32 @ Ebuyer) 

Total: £307.29

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-27 01:36 GMT+0000

 

You can overclock the CPU with the ASRock mob that allows you overclock 'locked' Skylake CPUs. I'm assuming you didn't have DDR4 memory so I chucked some in.

[jimakos234]

i would go for this.keep yor current ram and change that psu (even if it is an EVGA 500B or 500W, they are both crap)

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£203.32 @ Dabs)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£48.42 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: XFX TS 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  (£55.56 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £307.30
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-27 01:52 GMT+0000

[HKZeroFive]

i would go for this.keep yor current ram and change that psu (even if it is an EVGA 500B or 500W, they are both crap)

 

The 500B is fine as a PSU. You don't need to change it out.

[CrazyCoconut]

I'd honestly go for this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£175.85 @ Amazon UK)

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£24.98 @ Novatech)

Motherboard: ASRock Z97 PRO3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£74.58 @ Dabs)

Total: £275.41

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-27 01:30 GMT+0000

OR if you're keen on Skylake:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£155.00 @ Amazon UK)

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£24.98 @ Novatech)

Motherboard: ASRock Z170 Pro4S ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£84.99 @ Ebuyer)

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£42.32 @ Ebuyer)

Total: £307.29

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-27 01:36 GMT+0000

You can overclock the CPU with the ASRock mob that allows you overclock 'locked' Skylake CPUs. I'm assuming you didn't have DDR4 memory so I chucked some in.

I would go for the 4690 option if I was you because it's cheaper as you don't need to buy new ram (I assume) and we don't actually know if the 1151 socket will actually be used much in the future limiting its 'future proofness'. Also note that you shouldn't consider the fact that ddr4 is more future proof as the price will go down in the future so it would probably be better to stay on ddr3 until you next upgrade (saying that ddr4 is already a lot cheaper than it used to be.

[jimakos234]

The 500B is fine as a PSU. You don't need to change it out.

same tier as cx, not that good, maybe good enough, but definitely not that good

[HKZeroFive]

same tier as cx, not that good, maybe good enough, but definitely not that good

 

The only CX worth picking up is the CX430, the rest are just bad news.

[jimakos234]

The only CX worth picking up is the CX430, the rest are just bad news.

meh, most of them are bad news, but some cx 600/750/850 are gs rebrands,and are not that thrashy

also i think you meant the cx400, some of them were seasonic units, the others are CWT

[HKZeroFive]

meh, most of them are bad news, but some cx 600/750/850 are gs rebrands,and are not that thrashy

also i think you meant the cx400, some of them were seasonic units, the others are CWT

 

Ha, yeah you're right, I meant the CX400. I'd just like to avoid the CX series in general, I don't like power supplies that have a bad temperature tolerance. That and Jonnyguru's crappy rating of it.