It's been about 6 years since my last upgrade, and the only reason I really wanted to upgrade is to have more ram. My old board capped out at 8gb, so I looked to upgrade to something with 16+ and found that I could get a ridiculous deal through work on an i7-6850K. So I got the processor. I also got 16gb of Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3000MHz ram as it was really on sale.
I'm currently running an OCZ 700w psu and have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 that I don't really want to replace at the moment.
I used to play a lot of games, and the system I have now was good at the time I built it, but my primary use now is heavy multi-tasking with multiple browsers, word, excel, photoshop, indesign, outlook, and a lot of file transfers and dropbox/icloud drive usage. The only game I play anymore is Hearthstone in windowed mode.
My hard drives are a seagate hybrid drive for the OS and a few WD/Seagate drives for storage, all in an Antec 300 case.
The big thing I'll need is a motherboard, and I didn't see any of the socket 2011 boards getting fantastic reviews. I also need a cooling fan for the processor, as it was processor only that I got. I was considering a Samsung evo 850 solid state drive to run the OS, but I hadn't decided if that was worthwhile yet. I'm also open to a new case if it would be worthwhile/necessary.
Since this wasn't a super planned out upgrade, cost is my biggest factor. I don't need much in terms of performance, as my usage is definitely on the lower side for this type of hardware, but I want to be able to run 20+ windows open at the same time without anything slowing me down.
What board/fan would you recommend? Are any of the other upgrades worthwhile?
I'm currently running an OCZ 700w psu and have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 that I don't really want to replace at the moment.
I used to play a lot of games, and the system I have now was good at the time I built it, but my primary use now is heavy multi-tasking with multiple browsers, word, excel, photoshop, indesign, outlook, and a lot of file transfers and dropbox/icloud drive usage. The only game I play anymore is Hearthstone in windowed mode.
My hard drives are a seagate hybrid drive for the OS and a few WD/Seagate drives for storage, all in an Antec 300 case.
The big thing I'll need is a motherboard, and I didn't see any of the socket 2011 boards getting fantastic reviews. I also need a cooling fan for the processor, as it was processor only that I got. I was considering a Samsung evo 850 solid state drive to run the OS, but I hadn't decided if that was worthwhile yet. I'm also open to a new case if it would be worthwhile/necessary.
Since this wasn't a super planned out upgrade, cost is my biggest factor. I don't need much in terms of performance, as my usage is definitely on the lower side for this type of hardware, but I want to be able to run 20+ windows open at the same time without anything slowing me down.
What board/fan would you recommend? Are any of the other upgrades worthwhile?