My current PC suffered a motherboard and GPU failure last night. Since it is nearly three years old, I have decided to purchase a brand new PC rather than pay a significant sum to repair the old one. That being the case, I would like to know what everyone here considers to be a decent CPU for a new PC in 2014. I have been looking at the i5 4690k. The stock frequency appears to be 3.5Ghz, but I want to be able to overclock it to 4.5Ghz. I have been told that Asus motherboards enable overclocking to be done from the desktop, and the motherboard I have been looking at is the Asus Z97-A.

 

Bear in mind here that I am not looking for absolute top of the range parts in this PC. I want as much "bang for my buck" as I can get without paying silly amounts of money.

 

This is the spec that I have selected for consideration....

 

Asus Z97-A motherboard

Intel Core i5 4690k CPU

CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler

16GB Kingston Dual DDR3-1600 RAM (2x8GB)

2GB GeForce GTX 760 GPU

CoolerMaster Storm Enforcer case (same as my current PC; awesome piece of kit)

2x2TB 7200rpm hard disks

24x Dual Layer DVD Writer

750W Corsair RM Series PSU

Onboard sound (with the option to add my existing SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Music)

Windows 7 64bit Home Premium (existing copy; Windows 8 is not required at this stage)

 

The price is £799 + VAT and delivery

 

Comments welcome.

 

 

 

You should be able to change the 1600 ddr3 to some 2400 stuff for a few quid more, and 8gb would probably be more than enough (unless u do video editing).    The GTX 760 will be ok, but with the 50 quid or so you save using only 8gb ram, see if you can stretch to a 770 instead.

You'll probably need a better CPU Cooler than that 212 too