Good day to all.

[Budget] 2.5k

[Purpose] Video & Photo Editing, watching movies.

[Hardwares that will be re-use]HDD

[Monitor resolution]1080p, May upgrade to 4k in the future, waiting for vega/1080ti.

[Games & softwares that use frequently]Photoshop, Premiere Pro,

[Personal preferences]Don't need GPU, possible to get i7&SSD within this budget? If not then i7 only. Don't need OC.

[Location]Petaling Jaya, will buy within Digital Mall.

Thank You.

Hardware to re-use is "none" and monitor resolution is 1440p, so you are planning to get a 1440p or you already owned one?

I will go for this then.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 862
MSI B150M Pro-VDH - RM 340
Corsair 16GB (8GB x 2) DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 436
MSI GTX1060 6GB GDDR5 OC - RM 1120
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB SSD - RM 296
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD - RM 206
Superflower Leadex Gold 550W - RM 409
Tecware Alpha - RM 229
BenQ ZOWIE XL2411 144Hz - RM 1175

Total: RM 5073 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

Assuming you are able to sell if off at RM 500, adding RM 500 on top of it will get you RM 1000 in total, this cannot get you anything beyond Haswell i5 yet, Xeon E3 1230 V3/1231 V3 is priced slightly higher than your available budget (though you may find one which meets your budget ), while Haswell i7 is all > 1.2k unless you get those OEM/bulk units.

Well it is quite hard TBH, only able to fit a 3GB version of GTX1060 with minor over budget.

Intel Core i5 6402P - RM 754
ASRock H110M-ITX - RM 278
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 218
Zotac GTX1060 3GB GDDR5 Mini - RM 949
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
Silverstone SX500 500W - RM 412
Silverstone ML08B - RM 340

Total: RM 3166 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

** Not entirely sure of the 3.5" HDD is able to fit in the case or not but according to the specs sheet, it should be able to sit alongside with the chosen GPU (short card).

RX460 is faster but GTX750Ti will do the job just fine if you are looking to save as much money as possible.

Try to reset CMOS and BIOS settings first, see if it is able to solve the mysterious GPU issue or not before getting a new GPU.

Intel Core i7 6700 - RM 1318
Gigabyte B150M-D3H (D4) - RM 419
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 189
Seasonic M12II EVO 620W - RM 409 <prepare for the upcoming GPU>
Thermaltake Versa H25 - RM 169

Total: RM 2504 (Jayacom price inclusive of GST)

bro, how to reset cmos & bios

Is i7 4790 a good upgrade?

If your mobo comes with CMOS jumper then use it to reset, or just remove the CMOS battery for few seconds and put it back, search the Internet on how to do this if you don't understand.

i5 -> i7 grants you 4 extra threads (and slightly higher clock speed), but if your workload is low or doesn't benefit from the multithreaded CPU then it is hard to notice any performance difference.

i7 4790 is the highest end Haswell Refresh CPU already (for non-K) so the answer to your question is yes, it is considered as a good upgrade.

Should be okay right with my specs below?

It is compatible with your specs.

Just some update

1. Seems MSI GTX 1060 OC sold out at a lot of place...

2. Lazada SIngapore have an offer going for Palit GTX 1070 for around RM1550

hi guys, need your advice to upgrade my pc. please have a look at my spec below.

Intel Xeon E1230v2
MSI B75MA-P45
8GB G.Skill Sniper 1600 CL9
Intel 330 SSD 120GB
Palit GTX660TI Jetstream
Rosewill Hive 650M 80+ Bronze

Im looking to upgrade my graphic card because my current graphic card are having some issue. It will goes black screen after some time. Any pros can advise which decent graphic card is good for gaming and fit my spec above. thanks!

What's your budget?

hi there can help me to built a htpc

[B][Budget] cheapest can get

[Purpose] htpc only for browsing, movie and torrent

[Hardwares that will be re-use] mouse and keyboard, no need monitor since will use it at tv

[Monitor resolution] 1080p

[Games & softwares that use frequently] torrent, browsing, movie

[Personal preferences] prefer itx smallest case (sfx oso no prob)

[Location]

total budget for the upgrade is around rm1500.. do you think i should upgrade my processor too ?

As cheap as possible.

Intel Pentium G4400 - RM 236
ASRock H110M-ITX - RM 278
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 218
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD - RM 206
CM Elite Power 350W - RM 126
CM Elite 110 - RM 158

Total: RM 1222 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

No need to upgrade CPU/mobo if it is still functioning well, your CPU (Xeon E3 1230 V2) is basically an i7 3770 with no iGPU (doesn't matter since you are going to buy dedicated GPU anyway) and slightly lower clock speed (0.1 - 0.2GHz only), not worth upgrading it to an i7 3770.

GTX1060 6GB is your best pick now with your available budget, you don't have to change PSU too, just plug in the card and run (if everything goes well).

thanks a lot, if compare performance with intel nuc pentium or i3?

Thank You for your suggestion. Is it worth to wait for Kaby lake? Based on previous Intel cpu the raw performance gain isn't much right? Moreover with our ringgit dropping

Also any B150 mobo will do am I right?

depends lor u wait for klaby lake there goes your chance to claim PC tax rebate this year, and yeah there is the FOREX factor.

B150 is generally more exp then B150M

i3 > Pentium G4400 > Pentium N3700 (NUC)

Mostly 10% performance improvement based on the previous deployment history data.

Any H110/B150/H170/Z170 chipset mobo will be able to run the current Skylake and the upcoming Kaby Lake (via BIOS update) CPU.