New gaming build with a Revodrive X2.. feedback wanted... :-)

jfk2000

jfk2000

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Hi Folks,

Looking for feedback and sanity check before I get my credit card out.

After a few faithful years my normal set-up has died with mboard failure. :-( Rather than replacing the Motherboard I've convinced myself to refresh my tech to something new and tasty :-)

From my old system I'll be keeping my 1 X OcUK ATI Radeon 6950 2048MB.
So I need a CPU/motherboard/Memory/cooling solution.

The PC will be a high end Gaming machine, not too fussed about pricing but won;t be buying a EE edition Intel chip this time ;-)

Requirements are

1) Space for an existing Radeon 6950 ( and a spare slot maybe a twin brother in the future)
2) A Pci-e X4 slot for a OCZ RevoDrive X2 160GB PCI-Express Internal Solid State Drive
3) cooling solution that isn't too noisy

My current conclusions:

Feel free to contradict me/ provide feedback/ I'm just getting back up to speed reading OC forums and tomshardware etc.

P67 chipset (B3 revision) using a Intel 2500K or 2600K chip (is there much of a difference between performance on a i5/i7 ?)


http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-066-OE&groupid=43&catid=1917&subcat=

- CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz @ 4.60GHz Sandybridge CPU
- Motherboard: Asus P8P67-M PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION **
- RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel
- Cooler: Akasa Venom CPU Cooler
- Artic Silver 5 Thermal Compound


So the OcUK bundle might work but I'm not sure about the uatx form factor of the motherboard or if the Akasa Venom cooler is as noisy as people have reviewed.

Other option is: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-063-OE&groupid=43&catid=1917&subcat=

Bundle Specification
- CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.40GHz Sandybridge CPU
- Motherboard: Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION **
- RAM: Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel
- Cooler: Corsair A50 CPU Cooler
- Artic Silver 5 Thermal Compound

Am I losing a lot of performance here or is it fairly trivial?. I think I'd be happier with the ATX form factor and the quieter A50 fan.

I've stuck with the Asus offerings out of laziness as I know they are on the revodrive X2 compat list (http://www.ocztechnology.com/displaypage.php?name=revo_ibis_moboguide).


Thoughts / comments ?

Cheers,

~John
 
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I was questioning this yesterday as I'm building anew in about 8 weeks. As far as processors go, i5 2500k should be sufficient as they overclock easily to 4.5Ghz on air. Motherboard choice-wise, Asus are having a share of problems, and I was advised to get a Gigabyte board, the UD4 B3 revision to be exact. And tbh, you might as well get an 8Gb bundle of ram (2x4Gb sticks) as they only cost a mere £20-30 more than the 4Gb packs.
 
Credit card exercised on

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-064-OE

Bundle Specification
- CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz @ 4.60GHz Sandybridge CPU
- Motherboard: Gigabyte P67A-UD7 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard **B3 REVISION **
- RAM: Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel
- Cooler: Corsair A50 CPU Cooler
- Artic Silver 5 Thermal Compound


Looking forward to taking it for a test drive ;-)
 
OCUK said:
multitask seamlessly where waiting becomes and thing of the past.
Click to expand...

oops.

Also do you really only get a 250GB hard drive in the demolisher?

I am pretty jealous though!
 
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When does a PC become a server ..... the demolisher with its twin xeon chips is much more in the workstation/server camp than a home desktop .

That said .... it would be fun to see its benchmarks ;-)
 
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