Gaming rig 2011

mythicdawn07 · 21 Dec 2010 at 19:43

So... You've got £1400-£1500 to spend on a new computer early next year what do you buy?

You dont have to include monitor of peripherals if you dont want too.

I know SB arent out yet so just make a guess on there pricing. ^^

TheCenturion · 21 Dec 2010 at 19:52

580, sandy bridge cpu + mobo. revo drive/ other ssd, watercooling.

hybrid572 · 21 Dec 2010 at 19:58

^^ What he said, but aircooling and a badass monitor

mythicdawn07 · 21 Dec 2010 at 20:00

580 still top dog then? how they compare against the 6970s?

Randomface74 · 21 Dec 2010 at 20:11

Exactly the same thing I'd buy now - the way I understand it Sandy Bridge is not a replacement for 1366.

So... my current rig generally... with a 570 instead.
580 and SSD are still too expensive.

danceforfreedom · 21 Dec 2010 at 21:00

6970 and two monitors...

JPNUFC · 21 Dec 2010 at 21:00

Just wait and see what is around at the time, Sandy Bridge does appear the way to go!!

Atomfix · 21 Dec 2010 at 21:07

Why does Sandy Bridge seem to be the way to go then? I thought they are meant to be hard to overclock because of the built in SATA clock, PCIE Clock etc... and if you overclock the CPU, the SATA and PCIE also get's overclocked.

Most people hate Sandy Bridge and are going to move toward's AMD's new bulldozer CPU if I'm correct.

ng93 · 21 Dec 2010 at 21:20

Atomfix said:
Why does Sandy Bridge seem to be the way to go then? I thought they are meant to be hard to overclock because of the built in SATA clock, PCIE Clock etc... and if you overclock the CPU, the SATA and PCIE also get's overclocked.

Not if you go K series

http://it-chuiko.com/computers/7450-intel-core-i7-2600k-sandy-bridge-preodolevaet.html

cammy5477 · 21 Dec 2010 at 21:21

Atomfix said:
Most people hate Sandy Bridge and are going to move toward's AMD's new bulldozer CPU if I'm correct.

its not out for 2 weeks mate?

the reviews on it look very promising and as for amd......they would need to "bulldozer" intels factory to get ahead of them in the chip department just now :eek:

Atomfix · 21 Dec 2010 at 21:22

ng93 said:
Not if you go K series

http://it-chuiko.com/computers/7450-intel-core-i7-2600k-sandy-bridge-preodolevaet.html

Interesting, This looks promiseing....

Any have a rough idea what the price would be on this?

danceforfreedom · 21 Dec 2010 at 21:22

Yup and it seems if you want the K its only £15+

Atomfix · 21 Dec 2010 at 21:27

danceforfreedom said:
Yup and it seems if you want the K its only £15+

Think i will be sticking with my AMD X6 for a while until next year.

The only time i will be upgradeing to Sandy Bridge (K Series) is if my hardware fails and force's me to upgrade.

Or if gameplay starts to take it's toll, But with a AMD X6 and a ATI 6870, i think it will last a while.

danceforfreedom · 21 Dec 2010 at 22:52

Your system will breeze through it for a year I reckons...

Liampope · 22 Dec 2010 at 10:13

billysielu said:
Exactly the same thing I'd buy now - the way I understand it Sandy Bridge is not a replacement for 1366.

It's not, but it's still better. Faster clock for clock, 32nm chips that are doing 4-5GHz on air. All it lacks is tripple channel RAM and 16x/16x SLI/x-fire which is worth diddly squat anyway, particularly in games.

mythicdawn07 · 22 Dec 2010 at 16:42

Guess i was lucky in cancelling my order and waiting for SB then, Hopefully when i reorder there wont be as many problems as iv had in recent weeks lol.