Upgrade advice please.....

StevieP

StevieP

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I am in the process of selling my current mobo, cpu, cooler & ram and have got the following in mind as a replacement and wanted a few opinions:

i5 2500K
Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus
Gigabyte GA-P67-UD3
2 x 4Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz

In addition to the rest of the spec in my sig.

I tend to use the PC for gaming at 1920 x 1080.

Any thoughts, opinions, suggestions??

Thanks guys......
 
You may need to change the memory as your cooler may interfear with the heatsinks on them.
 
keep the gelid for the 2500K, ship the hyper 212 with the Q6600(or just dont bother and use the Q6600 HSF)?

rest looks good. No conflict with the PSU and graphics card. The motherboard (UD3) is good, but the memory might be a problem for fitting a HSF (Gelid, Hyper, ect...).
 
olivier renault said:
keep the gelid for the 2500K, ship the hyper 212 with the Q6600(or just dont bother and use the Q6600 HSF)?

rest looks good. No conflict with the PSU and graphics card. The motherboard (UD3) is good, but the memory might be a problem for fitting a HSF (Gelid, Hyper, ect...).
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+1 stick with your Gelid and save yourself £20
 
I've already pledged the Gelid as part of my bundle sale so cant really change it now!

Couple of questions then, is the mobo a decent one or is it worth looking at one of the new Z68 ones? And are we saying that the cooler will physically get in the way of the RAM???
 
Carrying on from the other thread.

The motherboards I suggested are still the ones to get.

And the Corsair XMS3 is now cheaper than the genesisX

Use the stock cooler or one of the others. the XMS3 ram like the GenesisX I suggested will fit under the cooler.
 
StevieP said:
Thanks for the continued help....

So you think this memory is a better bet than the Vengeance stuff??

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-205-CS

Also, I assume 6GB is more than enough??
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You want dual channel memory kit for sandybridge, either 4GB or 8GB kits.

The Vengeance ram is just more expensive for no benefit, the timings are still the same, but memeory timings make no difference with the sandybridge cpu's anyway if they were lower.
 
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Annoying then that OCUK do so many kits of 6GB!?!? :confused: - Ignore me, I was looking at the triple channel stuff!

Regards the motherboards - is it worth the extra few quid for the MSI over the Gigabyte one?
 
StevieP said:
Annoying then that OCUK do so many kits of 6GB!?!? :confused:

Regards the motherboards - is it worth the extra few quid for the MSI over the Gigabyte one?
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6GB kits are for Intel socket 1336 i7 systems.

The MSI is cheaper,

£99 - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-167-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1906

£105 - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-324-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1906

You still planning on sticking with a single GPU setup?
 
Yeah, definitely still a single GPU - I take it the only difference between the MSI you linked to and the GD65 is the SLI/Crossfire?
 
StevieP said:
Yeah, definitely still a single GPU - I take it the only difference between the MSI you linked to and the GD65 is the SLI/Crossfire?
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Yes.

theres also this now - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-170-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1906 - came instock yesterday I think, does SLI/corssfire at apparently equal speeds so both slots get an equal bandwidth when two cards are fitted, this is quite good for such a cheap board, dont think any others can claim to do this in its price range.
 
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Dont confuse me even more than I am already!!!! :confused:

I'd just about decided on the Gigabyte board when you posted that!! ;)

How easy to overclock (using the stock cooler) are the 2500K's and what sort of overclock are you likely to get without going mental?
 
Hmmmm, just had a quick look at the Gigabyte P67A-UD3 and it only lists 1066, 1333 and 800 for the memory speed and not the 1600 I'd want? Any idea if this is right?
 
StevieP said:
Hmmmm, just had a quick look at the Gigabyte P67A-UD3 and it only lists 1066, 1333 and 800 for the memory speed and not the 1600 I'd want? Any idea if this is right?
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The 1600mhz ram is rated "upto" 1600mhz so will work at slower speeds, the default memory controller speed of sandybridge is 1333mhz.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3651#sp

• Support for DDR3 2133/1866/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules

You either overclock the CPU which also increase the speed of the RAM, or use memory dividers to get the best from the ram/keep within spec.
 
So by running the CPU at stock I'll be underclocking the RAM? Any idea what sort of overclock on the CPU would leave the RAM at stock??

Sorry for all the questions - been a while since I dabbled in overclocking!
 
You would need to adjust the memory multiplier in the BIOS, as the BCLK is fixed at 100mhz you will need use the multiplier to increase the memory speed.
 
StevieP said:
So by running the CPU at stock I'll be underclocking the RAM? Any idea what sort of overclock on the CPU would leave the RAM at stock??

Sorry for all the questions - been a while since I dabbled in overclocking!
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Overclock the cpu, but use dividers to keep the memory within spec, if the BIOS is any good it will tell you the speeds as you play around with the settings.

Also instead of the Gigabyte board, this looks better - http://www.msi.com/product/mb/P67A-GD53.html

Perhaps these are questions for the right sub forum?
 
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