System Upgrage: buget £400 to £600

[bobins]

Hey all, hopefully you can provide a little advice.

My current rig, well if you can call it that, is ancient... time for an upgrade. My current system is as follows:

Mobo: Asus A8N32-Sli Deluxe

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4400+

Cooler: Arctic cooling Freezer 7 pro rev.2

Ram: Corsair Value, VS1GB400C3 DDR-400

GPU: BFG Nvidia 8800 GTS 320

HDD: 64Gb SSD - 1TB Storage

PSU: Arctic Pro 850

Case: bog standard Mid Tower ATX​

I have recently purchased the cooler in an attempt to squeeze a little more out of it until i get my budget saved up. So ill most likely wait to see what i can afford IB. I’m looking to have £400 to spend replacing the Core system then get a new card a month or two after so I’d have another £200 towards the card.

I have been looking at the current stuff as im not far off having the money saved up and burning a hole in my pocket...

To give you a little information on my thoughts and what im looking for. I have been thinking of making the jump over to Intel as reading the forums and watching a few reviews ive discovered the Bulldozer hasn't lived up to expectations. I am also looking to have a Rig that will have some longevity, being able to drop a better CPU in maybe, a year or so down the road without having to rip the guts out like i have to now. My rigs main use will be for Gaming.

So far I’ve been looking at:

CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K

Board: Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z Z68

RAM: Corsair 8GB (2X4GB) DDR3 1600Mhz Vengeance

Cost = £365.94​

then getting a new Graphics card a month or two after. What can I say I’m impatient.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated.

 

[TheOneHalf]

Seems pretty good, but I don't get why you go with a microATX board It's a good board though.

You could wait for ivy bridge and then either get a sandy bridge machine or an ivy bridge one, i'm pretty sure SB stuff is going to go pretty cheap when Ivy Bridge drops so

 

[Davidsons08]

Im surprised Intel is still charging on ahead with Ivybridge after how successful Sandybridge is and how badly AMD Failed with Bulldozer, I kinda figured Intel would ride the Sandy train a little longer. If Ivybridge shows significant improvement over Sandybridge then AMD is really gonna be left in the dust.

 

[tristan]

I agree with TheOneHalf in that after IB comes out the Price on SB is probably going to drop, and similarly i would expect the price on Nvidia graphics cards to drop a bit after kepler is realeased, that would be my guess at least, although i could be wrong. I personaly am probably going to buy an SB after IB comes out. Best of luck for the upgrade.

 

[bobins]

cheers guys. hopfully prices will drop on SB going to hold out for IB and see what happens.

board wise, tbh was window shopping didnt notice micro. I will want a normal sized board. you guys have any sugestions?

cheers

bobs.