Questions about upgrade

[Nermal]

1. Budget & Location

1,0-1,5k USD, location EU

 

2. Aim

Gaming (only CS:GO) + work

 

3. Monitors

24' benq 144hz

 

4. Peripherals

Already bought

 

5. Why are you upgrading?

I need to upgrade my PC to play CS:GO at higher frame rate and to improve my work speed :). My budget is around 1-1,5k but I don't want to go over the board, since I pretty much only play CS:GO.

 

Those are the parts that I would like to keep from my old PC:

Samsung - 840 Pro Series 512GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

MSI GeForce ® GTX 960 4GB GAMING

ASUS Xonar DG PCI 5.1 Audio Card.

 

And those I want to buy now:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£298.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H80i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£81.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI - B250 GAMING M3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£100.98 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (£129.60 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT - H440 (Orange/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: XFX - XTR 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£83.46 @ Eclipse Computers)
Total: £694.03
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-27 01:38 BST+0100

 

My main concerns:

 

Is this right motherboard for OC? Should I maybe go with cheaper motherboard and cheaper CPU?

Is the PSU good enough or do I need more power/different manufacturers PSU?

 

[yathis]

Be sure your mobo has all the features you want NOW and in the FUTURE.

M.3 storage and the like

 

looks good, also make sure your PSU is tier 1 maybe tier 2

 

Also buy a 500GB SSD and a 1TB HDD

Keep your receipts and boxes for 1 year

 

Perhaps you should look at Ryzen, it will be cheaper, plus you get more!

 

[Billy_Mays]

Where's the GPU

Call me blind 

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/CjtKTH

[ARikozuM]

You can't overclock on a B-chipset (reliably). You'll need a Z270 or Z170 with BIOS update. 

Or go with a 7700.

PSU is more than enough.

[ARikozuM]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

Where's the GPU?

 

7 minutes ago, Nermal said:

Those are the parts that I would like to keep from my old PC:

Samsung - 840 Pro Series 512GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

MSI GeForce ® GTX 960 4GB GAMING

ASUS Xonar DG PCI 5.1 Audio Card.

 

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

2 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

Where's the GPU

Call me blind 

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/CjtKTH

gtx 960 thats hes carrying over from his old system you would've seen it if you read the post 

[Droidbot]

Go with 7600k. CSGO hates hyperthreads, they're just a waste for it. 

 

Get H100iv2 and Z270 with the money you save and OC that sucka to 5Ghz. 

 

Alternatively Ryzen. Get a B350 mobo and a 1600 or a 1600X if you don't want to OC. CSGO has marginal gains up to 6 cores so you might get a gain from it 

[Nermal]

24 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Go with 7600k. CSGO hates hyperthreads, they're just a waste for it. 

 

Get H100iv2 and Z270 with the money you save and OC that sucka to 5Ghz. 

 

Alternatively Ryzen. Get a B350 mobo and a 1600 or a 1600X if you don't want to OC. CSGO has marginal gains up to 6 cores so you might get a gain from it 

 

If I would buy 7600k instead of 7700k how big will be the difference in desktop applications performance (Excel VBA heavy duty code, JS data scraper, etc.)? Also, if I do OC will I need more than 550W PSU?

[Droidbot]

1 hour ago, Nermal said:

 

If I would buy 7600k instead of 7700k how big will be the difference in desktop applications performance (Excel VBA heavy duty code, JS data scraper, etc.)? Also, if I do OC will I need more than 550W PSU?

Depends, are they well multithreaded? Then go for Ryzen 5 or 7700k. 

 

If they use one or 2 cores then go for 7600k by all means. 

[Nermal]

Thank guys for all answers

[cowpker4life]

Idk if your workloads are heavy multi-threaded but good chance a ryzen 5 or 7 would be best for you. Only if they scale if your workload only can use4 or less threads then a i5/r5 or a i7 will be best.