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Honestly if you can spend £150 and your planning to spend a further £200+ on a 7700k, your better off selling the 6400 and using the money for a b350 board and a 1600/2600

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CPU: Ryzen 2700X 
Cooler: Corsair H150i PRO RGB 360mm Liquid Cooler
Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair VII Hero
RAM: 16GB (2x8) Trident Z RGB 3200MHZ
SSD: Samsung 960 EVO NVME SSD 1TB, Intel 1TB NVME

Graphics Card: Asus ROG Strix GTX 1080Ti OC

Case: Phanteks Evolv X
Power Supply: Corsair HX1000i Platinum-Rated

Radiator Fans: 3x Corsair ML120
Case Fans: 4x be quiet! Silent Wings 3

 

 

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Look for used boards (and in the future, 7700k) instead. New skylake/kaby lake board and CPU are too expensive when Coffee and Ryzen are this much better.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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Due to my misses frowning upon my upgrading the pc, i was going to split it apart a bit.

I am changing my case to accomodate my HDD and SSD, and needed a mboard with more SATA Ports. I wasnt planning on changing the CPU just yet, hence keeping the 6400 for  now, and then go full spec when i can.

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25 minutes ago, Shpitzi said:

Due to my misses frowning upon my upgrading the pc, i was going to split it apart a bit.

I am changing my case to accomodate my HDD and SSD, and needed a mboard with more SATA Ports. I wasnt planning on changing the CPU just yet, hence keeping the 6400 for  now, and then go full spec when i can.

Well, the thing is that your upgrade path is limited to a 7700k, while hexa/octa-core CPUs are becoming the norm now. 

 

What if you get something like:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 1300X 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£93.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B350M-A Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£70.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £163.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-05-15 10:27 BST+0100

The board has six ports and is compatible with Ryzen up to the 2700X (and should be compatible with all AM4 CPUs until 2020). Look up some benchmarks between the two CPUs and make up your mind. 

 

If you really want to spend more money on a platform that is basically EOL:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: ASRock - Z270M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£97.63 @ YoYoTech) 
Total: £97.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-05-15 10:31 BST+0100

CPU: Ryzen 7 9800X3D Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Black Mobo: Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ 9070 XT RAM: G.Skill 2x16GB @ 6400 MHz SSD: PNY XLR8 2TB PSU: Corsair RM1000x Case: Fractal Design North Monitor 1: Asus XG27AQWMG(280Hz) Monitor 2: Asus VG259QM (240Hz)

I usually edit my posts immediately after posting them, as I don't check for typos before pressing the shiny SUBMIT button.

Unraid Server

CPU: Ryzen 5 7600 Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S Mobo: Asus B650E-i RAM: Kingston Server Premier ECC 2x32GB (DDR5) SSD: Samsung 980 2x1TB HDD: Toshiba MG09 1x18TB; Toshiba MG08 2x16TB HDD Controller: LSI 9207-8i PSU: Corsair SF750 Case: Node 304

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Eibe,

tbh your version makes a lot of sense... got stuck in the idea that  when i buy the next cpu its the final one for a good while.

Thinking of upping the 1300x to 1600x for the extra 50£ and keep that cpu going for a while. Is there a difference in the Boards A to E variant? seems im finding the same one just different letters.

 

Also selling my old parts might get me back on budget in a short while to jump to ryzen 7 from zen+ at some point

 

 

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