Equipment upgrade for about 600 €!!!

[colosoderada]

Hello everyone, after a long time I am thinking about changing my computer again.

Currently I have an intel e7200 with 4 gb of ram, a Nvidia gts 250 graphics card and a 600 W power supply.

I am thinking about buying these components although of course in theory in April-May the new Intel processors come out and I don't know if I should wait, after all my computer is 5 years old and others 6 months more....

ASRock Z77 Extreme4-M Motherboard - 101 €
Intel Core i7-3770 3.4Ghz Box Socket 1155 - 259 €
G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3 1600 PC3-12800 16GB 2x8GB CL10 DDR3 Memory (x2) - 158 €
Crucial M4 128GB SSD SATA3 Hard Drive SSD - 90 €

Total 608 €

The graphics card, the motherboard, the power supply (it's a couple of years old), the case, a 2 TB green caviar hard drive that I plan to reuse, the micro fan that comes in the box.

The use I give it is for programming, some SAP (I have a server set up at home and with 4 GB of RAM and the processor I have it goes a bit slow), playing ages of empire 2, Civilization V (which the poor thing struggles a bit when I'm already very advanced in the game), and call of duty 2. I also want to use it for virtualization.

I also thought about taking the leap to the i7-3820 or i7-3930K processor (but the truth is 510 € seems like a lot of money to me) besides that the i7-3820 and 3930k series seem to me to have an exaggerated consumption of watts (electricity is getting sky high) and energetically I think the i7-3770 is better.

I don't plan to overclock...........

Thank you very much for reading this post and happy new year to everyone...........

Best regards.

[Obione]

If you don't want to wait for summer you can go for the 3770. I would lower the price of the motherboard and memory in favor of plugging in a cooler. About 600 euros including shipping:

Custom budget. PcComponentes.com

[Fassou]

A middle option is to buy an LGA775 board that supports DDR3 (G41 chipset for ~50€) and put 2x4GB DDR3-1600 (~40€) or 4x4GB with a view to it being inherited by future Haswell, and improve the system for little money.

I know people with Core2Quad who have done this and are delighted.

You could also add the SSD, but I don't think you'll enjoy it as much with that micro.

Regards!