Combining new CPU/HDD/MB with some old components.

Computer Forum CPU, Motherboards and Memory
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I am on a rather tight budget, so i am trying to make a decent PC upgrade by replacing my oldest components and combining them with the “less old” ones.

New components (not yet purchased):

CPU: INTEL Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz (strongest i5, the next one is i7 that is ~50% more expensive)

MB: Gigabyte MB - SOCKET 1150 - GA-Z87-HD3 (this one costs about 100 euro, i could go to about 180 euro if something valuable can be gained).

HDD: WD 1TB SATA III, 64MB, 3.5", 7200rpm, Caviar Black - WD1002FAEX (fastest rpm and biggest cache that i could find, rather cheap as well)

Old components (not enough money for new GPU):
Windows 7 64-bit
GPU: NVidia GTX 460

RAM: 8GB DD3 1866MHz

Powersupply: Cooler Master 550W

Personally i think the only room for meaningful improvement (within price range) would be a higher quality motherboard upgrade, but i am not sure what i would gain by doing it?

The motherboard i mentioned above already has the Z87 chipset (intel’s best in the latest generation, as far as i know), and the RAM speed is within it’s capabilities - also as far as i know, the i5 can be safely overclocked on it.

So what do you think of this setup?
Please feel free to offer any advice and/or suggestions as to how i can improve it http://www.mmo-champion.com/images/smilies/smile.png

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With tight budget, take AMD FX-8320 and Asus M5A97 Evo r2.0.

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Thank you for replying.

Sorry but i heard/read extremely bad things about that AMD CPU with 8 cores - especially as far as gaming goes, where a lot of games barely use the 4 cores and the 8 cores of that CPU would be utterly wasted.
A couple of hardware experts i talked to told me to stick to i5/i7 as far as gaming goes, and to completely forget that AMD 8 core cpu.

Be they right or wrong, i definitely do not want to spend money on AMD CPUs.

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As for gaming, it’s hard to notice any difference between FX-8320 and i5-4670K except on some very poorly coded games that are unplayable anyway.

And with GTX460 you won’t notice ANY difference between 50e and 1000e processors. So buy better video card and then think about better processor.

Old parts are?

As for your question about motherboards, 100e MB is good enough. You can get better overclocking with 180e MB, but difference is not worth it.

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My current (old) cpu is a Intel Pentium D 940 - nearly a decade old piece of hardware >.<
The motherboard is nearly as old as the CPU, while the old hard disk is a 250GB one that i definitely want to upgrade.

I know the GPU (GTX 460) is rather weak, but i think my current (old) system is suffering from the very old CPU :frowning:

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Yes, too old stuff.

It suffers yes. With GTX 460 even cheapest modern low end processor is fast enough.