My PC upgrade plans:

[Creeper1372677]

So I'm Building another pc that will cost around USD $850.

As $850 is too much for me to do all at once, and i only make $20-80 per month i will be upgrading in waves.

Here's My overview.  It will be by far the most expensive pc i've owned.

It will be my first Radeon card.

It will (Might) Be my first i7 cpu

It will be my first SSD boot drive.

 

Here are some things i looked out for when choosing the motherboard:

I use two Soundcards and a graphics card.  One of the sound cards is an M-Audio Delta 44 that uses the Legacy PCI slot

I have two of those on my m5a97 R2.0.  The other soundcard is a sound blaster audigy fx.  I wanted to stay in a Micro Atx form factor as while not a dorm room, my room has very limited space.

I wanted socket 1151 for the Cpu i wanted and while i am getting a 6th gen i7 i want 7th gen to be an option.  With the latest bios the one i chose does support the 7700k.  Overclocking is not on my radar

even while i am pushing one heck of an overclock on my amd fx 6300.  The last thing i thought about was Sata connectivity.  I have three sata devices and will be adding a fourth.  I Have two WD Blue 1 TB Drives and one DVD/CD thing.

 

The graphics card was easy: $200 price point, reputable card:  AMD RX 480.  I'm not fully decided on which skew i want and for now i have a sapphire card in my list.

 

Ram Was tricky.  I wanted something that was less that $50 and right now i have a single 4 GB stick of DDR4 that will change as soon as i find some keywords for a budget 8GB kit.

 

OS: EZ-PZ Windows 10 home.

 

The psu will be inherited from my current pc and in the end my current rig will get a 500 watt so i can use it as a server.

 

when i chose the case i was thinking Size, Price, Reviews. So with that out of the way, lets list the specs of both my current pc and my upcoming one.

 

Current PC specs:

CPU: AMD fx 6300 OC'd to 4.5 GHZ

RAM: 3x4GB DDR3 1600

MOBO: ASUS m5A97R2.0

PSU: EVGA 700B

HDD: 2x WD Blue 1 TB

CASE: Modded Roswill challenger

ODD: Generic CD/DVD that came out of a prebuilt pc

GPU: Reference GTX 950

Other expansions:

 DUE TO TIME LIMITATIONS I WILL BE FINISHING THIS PAGE TOMORROW.

[Herman Mcpootis]

since you can wait, see what amd ryzen will offer at early march or so. can try MSI armor rx 480 4gb for $200, its cheap and good enough.

[dany_boy]

If you are not gonna OC, get a regular 7700 and save a few bucks in CPU, mobo and cooler.

[Creeper1372677]

2 minutes ago, dany_boy said:

If you are not gonna OC, get a regular 7700 and save a few bucks in CPU, mobo and cooler.

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