Upgrading from 7 year old PC

[Riverhound777]

It's been a long time, but this PC has served me well. Finally acting funny and needs an update. Rig in Sig, except I replaced the Video card and have an SSD

1. What YOUR PC will be used for.
Business work as well as gaming (Eve, MMOs, Strategy, not really FPS). I work from home, this is a jack of all trades PC.
2. What YOUR budget is.
$500, but likely wont need all of it.
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
USA
5. IF YOU have a brand preference.
Intel
6. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
Keeping Case, Video Card (ATI Radeon 7790), Hard drive (M500 240GB SSD), Monitors, speakers, Power Supply. Just need Mobo, Ram, CPU most likely? Will my Corsair HX520 work with new Mobo?
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
Not this time, it hasn't held it's OC for years and has been fine. Since I use it work now, no OC.
8. What resolution, not monitor size, will you be using?
dual 24-inch 1920x1080
9. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Within a month or two. sooner the better, but willing to wait if worth it.

Looking at the Mid-range thread I was thinking an i5 4690K, Z97 Board, and 8GB 1600. Is that pretty much the easiest route to last me another 5+ years?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboB...=Combo.1727854

If i'm not OC, do I need a separate CPU Cooler?

Worth looking at DDR4?

Thank you

 

[Termie]

Your plans sounds good. But you can save about $50 going with a 4690 and an H97 board, since you won't be overclocking. There are some nice H97 boards from MSI and Gigabyte for under $100, and the 4690 is usually (but not always) about $15 less than the 4690K.

Your power supply should be replaced. Not only is it old and potentially worn, but it could have compatibility problems with Haswell low-power states. Plus you'll gain some efficiency with a new model. The Corsair CS450M would be a good choice - Gold-rated, modular, plenty of power for your purposes.

You don't need a CPU cooler - but you might set the Intel fan to speed up at a higher temp limit than default - it can ramp up and down unnecessarily left to its own devices.

And DDR4 is only used by the ultra-high-end X99 platform. You can't use it for this build.

 

[Essence_of_War]

It might be worth picking up a new power supply. Older PSU's don't support Haswell's super lower power sleep states.

Looking at the Mid-range thread I was thinking an i5 4690K, Z97 Board, and 8GB G.Skill 1600. Is that pretty much the easiest route to last me another 5+ years?

That looks pretty good to me, except you can probably save on the CPU+MoBo if you're not planning to OC. I'd probably add the PSU, and go to 16GB of RAM since you have the budget.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS10X OPTIMA CPU Cooler ($17.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 PRO3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($85.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($124.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $503.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-08 11:58 EST-0500

That includes a few rebates, but is right around your budget point. You could come in under budget if you swapped CPU+MoBo down to a non-OC version which would also let you drop the after market HSF:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($200.98 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($74.78 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($124.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $435.74
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-08 12:02 EST-0500

 

[Riverhound777]

Thanks guys, good points and some great options.

 

[aigomorla]

i also vote you go 16GB of ram to future proof yourself a bit more.
DDR3 has a chance it will also be phased out soon with the introduction of DDR4.
So no one can tell you for certain the next platform to refresh lga1150 will not be DDR4 specific.
And if 5yrs is the next upgrade cycle, 16GB's will probably hold you out for almost anything and then some.

Is it worth looking at DDR4?
Not unless u intend to jump to the enthusiast platform and LGA2011.
to my knowledge there is no LGA1150 platform which utilizes DDR4 yet. (please correct me if im wrong.)

And jumping to LGA2011 will probably increase your cost by another ~100 dollars.
The board + cpu + ram will all have a price bump.

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS10X OPTIMA CPU Cooler ($17.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 PRO3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($85.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($124.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $503.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-08 11:58 EST-0500

If the OP is not intending to overclock, i dont think the OP will require a heatsink for the first option either which will save him 18 dollars.

 

[Riverhound777]

Yes I actually went ahead and ordered the hardware. I went with the 4690, Corsair CS450M, G.Skill Ares 16GB 1600, and a Gigabyte H97 Board. It went a little over $500 with tax, but should last me a while. Thanks all!

Edit: Just FYI the Team Vulcan RAM was out of stock.

 

[mfenn]

Yes I actually went ahead and ordered the hardware. I went with the 4690, Corsair CS450M, G.Skill Ares 16GB 1600, and a Gigabyte H97 Board. It went a little over $500 with tax, but should last me a while. Thanks all!

Edit: Just FYI the Team Vulcan RAM was out of stock.

Good part choices. Let us know the build turns out! 🙂