PC "rebuild" has commenced...

My tower needed some refreshing, its a/used to be a HP ENVY 1455 I bought it in November of 2012.

Specs

WIndows 10
I7-3770K
AMD Radeon 7570 2 GB
12GB DDR3 1600 RAM
2TB 7200 RPM HD
16GB SSD for CPU cache
460W PSU

All OEM pre built hardware it has served me well this past 3 years, but I thought it was time to upgrade the rig.

in December of last year, I purchased a new GPU and PSU.
ASUS AMD 380X oc'ed edition
Corsair 550M PSU (Does this need to be upgraded again? thoughts.)

Yesterday I tore the tower down and ripped all the parts out, today I purchased a few more things to basically to "rebuild" or start "all over" reusing a few parts from the old tower, ill be reusing.

CPU
RAM
2TB HD
16GB SSD for CPU cache
380X GPU
Corsair 550M PSU
Stock HP CPU cooler (will be upgrading to a water cooler soon)

Today I purchased

Corsair Vengeance Series C70 Case
Sandisk 120GB SSD (For boot drive)
Intel BOXDZ77GAL-70K mobo (this was the hardest thing to find lol, very little "good" brand new LGA 1155 mobos left on the market for a good price, I ended up with this one.)
and of course some thermal paste

I plan to use the 120GB Sandisk SSD for the boot drive and all other necessary OS files only (that is why the SSD is very small.)

I am going to be using my old 2TB HD for all other files and photos etc, I also have another spare 1 TB 7200 RPM HD that i'm thinking about throwing in there for my steam install and games.

I also have a Seagate 4TB back up plus external HD sitting on my desk just in case.

Parts should be here by next week Tuesday (14th), ill be sure to post up some pics, anyone have a nick name for it in mind?

Thoughts and opinions welcome.

 

Pretty nice build, you're going to be pushing that 550W PSU pretty hard though. Assuming it's a CX550M which is only bronze rated IIRC. Fair enough I use a 650W PSU but it's gold rated. I would have went with a higher wattage unit.

 

Actually it's a gold unit, but I knew I should have opted for a higher watt PSU.. lol

I didn't think that I was going upgrade some more, (we'll that's what everyone says lol.)

 

What is happening to your old GPU?

 

With any luck it will be getting thrown into the trash where it belongs.

 

Hey, it's a good coaster. If you solder wires to the power/ground pins and add a battery it keeps your drink hot too.

 

The POS 7570? It went into the trash awhile ago..

 

DON'T YOU DARE "UPGRADE" THAT 3770K

 

Nope, the 3770K is staying that's the reason why I was searching high and low for a 1155 Z77 board. (Not that many choices left on the market, all the other is $250+ or out of stock).

 

you make me happy.

 

Why wouldn't you? There are much better CPUs available now, it's totally worth upgrading if you can afford it.

 

I was looking at a skylake, but I was thinking the 3770K is doing me fine right now. It's impressive how fast the skylake cpus are.

 

LIES! Modern CPU's are junk! Long live IVY BRIDGE!!!

 

LOL

 

Yeah, it's still a great CPU, and doesn't need to be replaced - but it wouldn't be pointless.

Skylake isn't really that impressive - about 5-10% IPC increase over Haswell - but Haswell is already ~10% better than Ivy Bridge, that stacks, and the result is Skylake is significantly faster. Devil's Canyon (Haswell refresh) and Skylake i7 are also clocked higher (.5GHz faster stock and boost). If you do the math, a Skylake i7 is nearly 40% faster at stock clocks, and about 20% faster clock-for-clock.

Still, proper cooling is cheaper than a new CPU, and the 3770K can be easily overclocked to ~4.6, higher than a stock 6700K. So it's good for a few more years.

 

Once I order a water cooler i'm hoping I can clock it to 4.6.

 

I still have a i5-2500 non K, I want a K or a newer CPU! But I have no money...

 

I don't think any graphics cards should be thrown our dead or alive.

 

So you would keep a box full of useless dead graphics cards?.. Okay...

 

yes, I love old computer parts.