New I5 2500k system Spec- Your thoughts?

Robertnpmk

Robertnpmk

Robertnpmk

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Think ive decided on my build. Its gone up in price again lol. :)

What are your thoughts?

Think I should wait until Z68 is out, as wont be buying until end of may anyway?

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 570 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £269.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £161.99
1 x Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £136.55
1 x Antec TruePower New Modular 750W Power Supply £109.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £91.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9) £81.59
1 x Corsair Hydro H60 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/1155/1156/775/AM2/AM3) £59.99
1 x Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £43.99
Total : £968.08 (includes shipping : £10.00).

Thanks for your input.

R
 
looks good to me, but u might want to w8 for the ocz agility IIIssd as its much faster. Whether or not the z68 is worth w8ing for depends if u want to make use of any of its features, for me there would be little point.

*Edit much faster writes I mean
 
titan13131 said:
looks good to me, but u might want to w8 for the ocz agility IIIssd as its much faster. Whether or not the z68 is worth w8ing for depends if u want to make use of any of its features, for me there would be little point.

*Edit much faster writes I mean
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Thanks.

Apart from waiting for pay day and saving the money, so the Z68s will be out by the time I buy it.

Might wait for reviews to come up.

And as above maybe the ASUS Z68 boards wont be so crap- (as everyone on this website seems to think)

R
 
It's a sweet spec. Personally, I would go for the Gigabyte UD4, but makes no odds really. Any changes would be pretty insignificant. Go for it. :)
 
 
Not that anything is incompatible but you could have saved some money had you double checked back here before you bought.

The XMS3 is £20 cheaper with the same specs as the vengeance.

Could have then used that money to swap the SSD for the OCZ Agility 3 which boasts better write and read speeds for only £10 more.

Seeing as you only bought them tonight, you could call up in the morning and ammend the order if you wish, or drop OcUK a post in the customer service section and they will sort you out.

If you can't be bothered with the hassle, there's nothing wrong with what you bought.

Either way we want pics! :D lol

Let us know how you get one :)
 
Thanks for the information dude,

Always had my heart set on the vengeance ram.

There was also a massive thread about ppl having problems with the agility 3 that I saw on this.

Will update with pics soon, prob wont get the goods until next week.

R
 
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