Help building a new PC - 700€ budget

[guzacon]

Hi all,

I'd like to upgrade my desktop PC. I live in Italy and my budget is 700€.

Components I already own:
- Case
- Mouse & keyboard
- Samsung B2430H Monitor
- Speakers
- OS
- A 120Gb SSD for the OS.

Apart from working with it (so mainly Office + CAT tools), I'll use it to play games, no video encoding whatsoever. I would like a very silent PC, I'd prefer that over a 2% increased performance.


Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Deleted]

Amazon.it doesn't really give many options and no skylake cpu's. So based on that i would look something like this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (€204.96 @ Amazon Italia)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€88.00 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€42.29 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€52.80 @ Amazon Italia)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 960 4GB Video Card (€245.62 @ Amazon Italia)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (€59.50 @ Amazon Italia)
Total: €693.17
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-27 09:59 CET+0100


If you don't need the hdd then you can get an i5 4690k with a Z97mobo.

[guzacon]

Thank you Kostattoo, but isn't this the Skylake you were referring to: http://www.amazon.it/Intel-Processor...keywords=6600k ?

[Deleted]

Yes but the damn thing wasn't listed on pc partpicker when i was looking for it. I did do a manual search after posting the specs, saw the prices and well...they are beyond your budget. Unless you drop to an i3 which i would not suggest since you can grab an i5 haswell. Differences aren't that big between them, think 5-10% performance difference.

[guzacon]

Thanks, I can probably still use my Power Supply, it's 3 years old but should work fine (650W).
The difference in price is around 60€, so I guess I wouldn't exceed the 700€ mark by that much, right?

[Deleted]

Its more than that. You need a skylake mobo and ddr4. So if you pick a 6600k you need a Z170mobo and 8gb ddr4. If you go for an i5 non k you can pick a cheaper H170 mobo but be careful in that case to get 2133Mhz ram not higher mhz. Whats the exact model of the psu you already have?

[guzacon]

This one: http://www.amazon.it/LC-Power-LC6600.../dp/B0017LT3R2

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That power supply is bad quality. It can barely output 500w. Stick to the one i linked, don't cheap out on psu is most important part of the pc. If it goes bad it can take out all your pc parts with it ...

[guzacon]

I'll follow your advices, then. Thank you so much