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Waddy101

Waddy101

Waddy101

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Hi i'm looking at building a PC, i think i posted here about it once before but now i actually have the money to do it.
My build is as follows:
CPU: Intel i5-2500k
GPU: Asus ATI Radeon HD 6950 DirectCU II 2048mb
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3
PSU: Corsair TX650 V2
RAM: 4GB Corsair XMS3
HDD: 1TB Seagate Barracuda Green
Optical Drive: LG DVD Writer, GH22NS50
Case: Zalman Z9 Plus

Total Price: £638.38

I cut some corners so i could get a better GPU and the case i wanted.

How long do you think this PC will last in terms of running games at High to Max settings on a single monitor?
 
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You should remove the competitor links before a DON suspends you.

Apart from that, the build is brilliant
 
MAXIBOY said:
thought the gigabytes z68 boards where missing features...
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your corrrect. stulid was very cross when i recommended that particular board as it has poor build quality and is missing very basic stuff.

depending on budget and needs, these are the motherboards you want:
Asus P8P67 LE
Asrock Z68 pro 3
MSI P67A GD53
Asus P8Z68-V
Asrock Z68 Extreme 4 Gen 3
 
Reaper 392 said:
your corrrect. stulid was very cross when i recommended that particular board as it has poor build quality and is missing very basic stuff.

depending on budget and needs, these are the motherboards you want:
Asus P8P67 LE
Asrock Z68 pro 3
MSI P67A GD53
Asus P8Z68-V
Asrock Z68 Extreme 4 Gen 3
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The reason i picked the Board i did is because it's cheap ~£80 and i will be using it as a gap-filler until the X79 chipset is released. My PC will mainly be used for gaming so going cheap now and getting that later seems like a good idea to me.
 
Waddy101 said:
The reason i picked the Board i did is because it's cheap ~£80 and i will be using it as a gap-filler until the X79 chipset is released. My PC will mainly be used for gaming so going cheap now and getting that later seems like a good idea to me.
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Sounds like a good idea, But the X79 is for a completely different socket type, so you would have to swap the CPU also.

The X79 will also be quad channel RAM ready, but im sure will work in dual channel mode too.

It maybe better to run this cheap board and i5 2500K until the next/next stuff comes out.
 
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stulid said:
Sounds like a good idea, But the X79 is for a completely different socket type, so you would have to swap the CPU also.

The X79 will also be quad channel RAM ready, but im sure will work in dual channel mode too.

It maybe better to run this cheap board and i5 2500K until the next/next stuff comes out.
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Actually that will probably be a better idea, the components as they are at the moment will more than adequately last until that time anyway. As for the features missing on the Z68 board i'm actually not too bothered about them. I won't really have use for them anyway.
 
Even a i5 2500K @ 4GHZ is not a slow chip and wont struggle for a long time and getting that speed with that setup will be easy.
 
stulid said:
Even a i5 2500K @ 4GHZ is not a slow chip and wont struggle for a long time and getting that speed with that setup will be easy.
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It isn't at all, i know someone who has a very similar build to the one i'm making just a different Graphics card, HDD and RAM. And he has a stable overclock at 5ghz with a H60 as a cooler.

And at 5Ghz, it's more than enough to play most games at Max settings on a single monitor for the foreseeable future
 
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