Please Suggest PC Upgrade Within 20k - 30k

[krishnandu.sarkar]

1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Stupid answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work. Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.')
Ans: Visual Studio 2015, SQL Server 2014, Photoshop CC (Occasionally) & Lightroom CC (Occasionally), XAMP / WAMP

2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then mention this too.
Ans: 20k - 30k

3. Planning to overclock?
Ans: No

4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans: Windows 10 and Ubuntu

5. How much hard drive space is needed?
Ans: 1 TB

6. Do you want to buy a monitor? If yes, please mention which screen size and resolution do you want. If you already have a monitor and want to reuse it, again mention the size and resolution of monitor you have.
Ans: I already have a monitor. I'll reuse it. Dell ST2220L

7. Which components you DON'T want to buy or which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans: I'm planning to upgrade only processor and motherboard (if required)

Processor : Intel i5 2400 (Want to upgrade)
Motherboard : Intel DH67CL (Can reuse it if new proccy supports and doesn't get lagged)
RAM : GSKill Ripjaws F3-12800-CL9S-4GBXL x 2 (Will reuse it)
PSU : Seasonic S12 II Bronze 520W ) (Will reuse it)
Graphics Card : AMD Raedon HD6770 (Will reuse it)
UPS : APC 600VA (Will reuse it)
Monitor : Dell ST2220L (Will reuse it)
Keyboard + Mouse : Logitec Combo MK200 (Will reuse it)

8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans: In 2-3 months

9. Have you ever built a desktop before or will this be done by an assembler?
Ans: Will be done by assembler

10. Where do you live? Are you buying locally? Are you open to buying stuff from online shops if you don't get locally?
Ans: Kolkata. Will buy from Chandni Chowk.

11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Ans: Well, my current configuration is working for 5 years but now unable to take the load of newer versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server. Sometimes even Lightroom CC & Photoshop CC takes ages to load. So please suggest a future proof config which can take the load of current versions of applications.

 

[nac]

Processor : Intel i5 2400 (Want to upgrade)
Motherboard : Intel DH67CL (Can reuse it if new proccy supports and doesn't get lagged)
RAM : GSKill Ripjaws F3-12800-CL9S-4GBXL x 2 (Will reuse it)
So please suggest a future proof config which can take the load of current versions of applications.

As you doubted, latest processors use different socket, so need to replace your motherboard as well.
Price difference between Haswell and Skylake is not much (CPU+MB), but if you're going for Skylake, you may prefer to replace RAM as well and that will cost extra.
This is not a suggestion from my side, just showing what's possible in your budget. Probably you have already done this yourself.

		Haswell i5	Haswell i7	Skylake i5	Skylake i7
Processor	i5-4460/i7-4790/i5-6400/i7-6700	13200	22500	14250	23850
Motherboard	H97-PRO/H97M-E/H170-PRO	9250	7500	9950	9950
RAM	4GB DDR4 x 2	-	-	4500	4500
Total		22450	30000	28700	38300

 

[krishnandu.sarkar]

As you doubted, latest processors use different socket, so need to replace your motherboard as well.
Price difference between Haswell and Skylake is not much (CPU+MB), but if you're going for Skylake, you may prefer to replace RAM as well and that will cost extra.
This is not a suggestion from my side, just showing what's possible in your budget. Probably you have already done this yourself.

		Haswell i5	Haswell i7	Skylake i5	Skylake i7
Processor	i5-4460/i7-4790/i5-6400/i7-6700	13200	22500	14250	23850
Motherboard	H97-PRO/H97M-E/H170-PRO	9250	7500	9950	9950
RAM	4GB DDR4 x 2	-	-	4500	4500
Total		22450	30000	28700	38300

That made my task easier. Thanks a lot

I may afford Skylake i5 and it's always better to go for the latest, futureproof wise. But Performance wise Hasweel i7 is better then Skylake i5?

 

[bssunilreddy]

Go with Haswell i7 which is always better than Skylake i5.

Intel Core i7 4790 -23000,
MSI H97M-G43 -7000.
TOTAL -30,000.

The above motherboard is hard to found but has DVI,HDMI,Display Port for multi monitor setup.
It also has 6 SATA 6GBPS Ports and 1 M2 Port for future upgradability.

 

[krishnandu.sarkar]

Go with Haswell i7 which is always better than Skylake i5.

Intel Core i7 4790 -23000,
MSI H97M-G43 -7000.
TOTAL -30,000.

The above motherboard is hard to found but has DVI,HDMI,Display Port for multi monitor setup.
It also has 6 SATA 6GBPS Ports and 1 M2 Port for future upgradability.

Thanks for confirming. So if I go with Haswell i7, I don't need to replace my RAM's right as suggested by [MENTION=125321]nac[/MENTION]?

 

[bssunilreddy]

Thanks for confirming. So if I go with Haswell i7, I don't need to replace my RAM's right as suggested by @nac ?

Yes, You can use your existing RAM Modules.