Upgrading my PC

[peteyt]

Yeah I've just got a new pc built because mine was at least 7 years old. Sometimes it's better in the long run to buy a brand new one rather than adding to your current old one. As for RAM while technically the more the better 32 even probably 16 could be classed as overkill. 8gb will probably suit you.

My new specs if they help are:
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor
Asus Z87-K Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
Corsair RM Series RM 650 '80+ Gold' 650W Power Supply (CP-9020054-UK)
TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01)
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003)
HDD Galaxy Evo Gaming Case USB3.0 3x Red/Blue LED Switchable Fans

That cost me I think just over £500 but that's without a graphics card as I'm saving up for a 760 windforce 3x oc rev2 2048mb gddr5 pci-express graphics card black pcb which is about £200. The motherboard I have has onboard graphics which is no good really for high end games but will be fine for now.

[Chippiewill]

Dude, why would you get the 4770k if you can't afford the card? Graphics card is ALWAYS the bottleneck these days.

[Liva]

You won't be able to upgrade your cpu to i3, i4, i7 without upgrading your motherboard. So you may as well just get a new pc.

And windows 8 is fine. Stop being scared of changes

I've been using windows 8 for the last 3 months and I still hate it.

[peteyt]

Dude, why would you get the 4770k if you can't afford the card? Graphics card is ALWAYS the bottleneck these days.

A graphics card is the least important for me right now. I wanted a PC that could do a lot of stuff I plan to do later on and one which I knew would last me. There's an onboard graphics card that will do me fine for now.

[Chippiewill]

There are very few situations where you would go for a 4770k over the 4670k, the 4770k just gets you hyperthreading. Hyperthreading is pretty much only useful for video editing / CAD heavy stuff, which would be ok except those use cases are also incredibly graphics dependant. Integrated graphics is far, far away from being on par with dedicated. So in reality you effectively burned £100 on 0.1Ghz improvement in CPU clock speed which means absolutely jack **** in this day and age.

[peteyt]

There are very few situations where you would go for a 4770k over the 4670k, the 4770k just gets you hyperthreading. Hyperthreading is pretty much only useful for video editing / CAD heavy stuff, which would be ok except those use cases are also incredibly graphics dependant. Integrated graphics is far, far away from being on par with dedicated. So in reality you effectively burned £100 on 0.1Ghz improvement in CPU clock speed which means absolutely jack **** in this day and age.

Video editing is one of the possible future uses for my new build but as it's a future thing I don't need the graphics card yet. It will be far easier though to buy a new graphics card rather than later on changing the cpu