I think it is finally time to upgrade my Bloomfield rig. Don’t really have a budget at this time, but I’m not doing a wholesale upgrade either. I’m still in research phase, so feel free to suggest other products.
The big use for my PC will be gaming. I plan to OC, but too too much. As of right now, I can play any game I want and not have any issues. Lightly playing D3, with plans to finally start Tomb Raider and awaiting the next Starcraft expansion. No other big, high resource games on my radar at the moment.
I will be carrying over the following parts for sure:
AMD 7870
Curcial M4 128GB
Crucial M500 256GB (OS)
Dell U2412M
Windows 7
Optical drive (some LG DVD-RW)
Not so sure about whether to keep these:
Noctua U12P-SE: I think I can buy a conversion kit so it is compatible with the 1150 socket. I don’t see much in the air cooling market that will do much better without spending a lot of money.
Asus Xonar DX (PCI-E): I would imagine most onboard audio is just as good or better since this is pretty old now, but willing to re-use. I use Sennheiser HD555 headphones exclusively.
Cooler Master CM690 II extreme: will try to order the replacement top panel with USB 3.0 headers. I really love the tray to mount disk drives, so a new case would need something similar.
What I’m eyeballing:
Intel Core i5-4690K: definitely sticking with Intel, and some “K” variant
ASRock Z97 Extreme6
Gskill Ares 8GB 2133 kit (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231554)
PSU: SeaSonic G Series SSR-550RM
The big use for my PC will be gaming. I plan to OC, but too too much. As of right now, I can play any game I want and not have any issues. Lightly playing D3, with plans to finally start Tomb Raider and awaiting the next Starcraft expansion. No other big, high resource games on my radar at the moment.
I will be carrying over the following parts for sure:
AMD 7870
Curcial M4 128GB
Crucial M500 256GB (OS)
Dell U2412M
Windows 7
Optical drive (some LG DVD-RW)
Not so sure about whether to keep these:
Noctua U12P-SE: I think I can buy a conversion kit so it is compatible with the 1150 socket. I don’t see much in the air cooling market that will do much better without spending a lot of money.
Asus Xonar DX (PCI-E): I would imagine most onboard audio is just as good or better since this is pretty old now, but willing to re-use. I use Sennheiser HD555 headphones exclusively.
Cooler Master CM690 II extreme: will try to order the replacement top panel with USB 3.0 headers. I really love the tray to mount disk drives, so a new case would need something similar.
What I’m eyeballing:
Intel Core i5-4690K: definitely sticking with Intel, and some “K” variant
ASRock Z97 Extreme6
Gskill Ares 8GB 2133 kit (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231554)
PSU: SeaSonic G Series SSR-550RM
