Spec me up please

hybrid · 19 May 2014 at 22:35

Evening all,

I'm a little out of touch with hardware and I'm aware there's new CPU's on the horizon. My current rig is a Q6600 with 4GB RAM and I'm rapidly losing patience with it when it comes to rendering large files in Photoshop and handling a large Lightroom catalogue. Photo editing and general Interweb use is basically all the machine is used for.

I have a max budget of £600 and I'm looking for:

CPU
Mobo
RAM - Preferably 16GB
SSD for boot disk. I have plenty of nice disks for storage.

Let's see what you can muster up.

RJC · 19 May 2014 at 22:53

Quick spec below, but I assume you have a ATX sized case and a decent PSU?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £251.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97-HD3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £87.95
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £67.99
2 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £59.99 (£119.98)
Total : £537.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).

hybrid · 20 May 2014 at 12:41

Looks great, thank you.

Is it worth it if I keep the 4770k you've speced up or pluck up for one of the newer Haswell's?

I have a fairly new decent enough PSU and case I will be using from my old build so I can save the money from this.

Thanks again

los · 20 May 2014 at 12:53

The new 4790k should be out next month, its suppose to have better IHS connection, so should cool better, therefore hopefully overclock a bit better. Slightly higher stock clocks, about 100mhz I believe

hybrid · 20 May 2014 at 20:19

los said:
The new 4790k should be out next month, its suppose to have better IHS connection, so should cool better, therefore hopefully overclock a bit better. Slightly higher stock clocks, about 100mhz I believe

I'm hoping to not have to overclock the chip at any point, so do you think it's worth holding off for this new chip or not?

Thanks for the help

RJC · 20 May 2014 at 20:24

hybrid said:
I'm hoping to not have to overclock the chip at any point, so do you think it's worth holding off for this new chip or not?

Thanks for the help

The non overclockable cpus are out now

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4790 3.60GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £227.99
1 x Gigabyte H97-HD3 Intel H97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £74.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £67.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD38G2133HC11ADC01) £53.99
Total : £434.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).