I made a thread a while back about a building a custom computer. I've been looking into all the possibilities I could with my knowledge and this is the pre-final build I've come up with and TBH I think it is an amazing build for the price.. AMD PHENOM II X6 1055T - £137.42 ASUS M4A78LT-M LE - £44.71 CORSAIR A50 CPU COOLER - £29.99 CORSAIR 4GB DDR3 1600MHZ - £52.86 SAPPHIRE HD 5770 - £99.99 OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w - £60.71 Samsung F3 HD103SJ 1TB - £39.99 Samsung SH-D163C/BEBE - £10.99 Zalman Z7-PLUS - £42.99 TP-Link TL-WN851N - £15.13 Total - £537.64 I'm willing to dump the cooler and keep the stock cooler and instead upgrade the motherboard and pc case. I do plan on overclocking the CPU to around the 4ghz mark. TL ; DR - What hardware can I change to upgrade for the same price range. £550 is the max I am willing to go to. Thanks guise!
You specified "dumping the cooler" then later in the same sentence stated your plans to overclock up to 4GHZ. 1.2GHZ overclocking on a stock cooling system probably isn't the smartest thing to do. If you have a spare external drive, I'd recommend dropping the new hard drive, taking your external out of it's case and using it as your local drive, in order to keep the cooler in your list.
by "dumping the cooler" do you mean a liquid cooler or fans? because you wont need liquid cooling unless the room is extremely hot.
The overclocks on youtube that are @ 4ghz have all been done with stock cooling. I mean a radiator for the CPU.
the stock radiator should be fine. If you are going to OC make sure you boost your fan speeds as-well.
Don't worry, I'm investing a lot of money into it (For me it is a lot ); I aint doing anything stupid reckless!
It makes complete sense. "a quantity of something accumulated, as for future use: a stock of provisions." Now unless you are actually going to help me, other than debating the context stock is used in, don't reply!