i7 purchase bit of quick advice

Zuban

Zuban

Zuban

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Hi, looking at replacing my 1090t with an i7 2600k but have seen the 2700k on offer this week along with the asrock z68 gen 3 on offer aswell, this looks like a good deal? is there any better options for the money? and when does the "this week only offer" end? am waiting on a bit of money going into my paypal.

already have memory and everything else needed, nothing really wrong with my 1090t, but my bro's pc broke, so selling it to him to replace his core 2 duo, should work out nicely for us both :D
 
I have heard the asrock board can have problems with some large cpu coolers. If that is a consideration for you then I would go for one of the other boards. I would personally recommend the gigabyte board. I have had generally good experiences with them
 
Cool so i have the weekend to decide really.

I have an akasa venom cooler at the moment, which i will carry over for justnow. Requirements for the motherboard are really only something that will give me a decent overclock, I do a fair bit of 3d rendering as a hobby so want a decent stable overclock to make the most of the cpu, will get a better cooler later on if i need to. Would like the option to go crossfire if i were to pick up another 6950 at some point.

i'm assuming any of the boards would give me that, the asrock seemed popular looking in the motherboards section, i like the price of the msi and it looks like it would do the job, but i also quite like gigabyte boards, is there any advantage to the 20 phase power design of the gigabyte for example.
 
Would like the option to go crossfire if i were to pick up another 6950 at some point. i'm assuming any of the boards would give me that,
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The boards listed give you SLI+Crossfire.

is there any advantage to the 20 phase power design of the gigabyte for example
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More VRM phases = Better, the more you have the more they share the load and thus run cooler and more stable. So in turn you get a higheer overclock of the CPU (hopefully, still depends on the chip)

The UD5 is missing Lucid virtu+Quicksync though.
 
I have a HUGE cooler Gellid Tranquillo on my Asrock Z68 Ext4 Gen3 with an i5 @ 4.6 ghz and I have had absoloutely no problems. The overclock was done with 1 click in the bios and been stable.

I personally love my Asrock board but this is just my opinion.
 
cool thanks, the asrock does seem really popular, i've read some reviews on it which says the perfomance isnt quite as good as some other boards? but how much should i read into that?

any opinions on the asus board?
 
what reason? just wondering, couple freinds have asus p67 boards, although they do seem to have mixed opinions on them.
 
They sometimes do an annoying power on, power off, power on, power off, maybe repeat a few more times, start up procedure.
 
Zuban said:
cool thanks, the asrock does seem really popular, i've read some reviews on it which says the perfomance isnt quite as good as some other boards? but how much should i read into that?

any opinions on the asus board?
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I got this board because of reviews and it's simplicity. When it comes to purchases bud it's your final say.

Boot times are quick and for the simple overclock is why I love this.

Asus in the past for me have been poor with having 2 asus boards die on me.
 
ok think you guys have put me off the asus :)

i'm swithering between the gigabyte and the asrock, the lucid virtu i dont think matters to much to me nor does the quick sync given the software i use. One question i have is should i be worried about pci 3 support? I'm hoping to make more use of gpu acceleration via opencl for both 3d rendering and software like sony vegas, so not sure if its something i should be considering for the next batch of gfx cards.
 
I personally would look at msi, gigabyte first with asrock close behind.

Gigabyte have a uk repair centre, msi have an arrangement with retailers such as ocuk to handle the 3 year warranty, if they dont then its of to Netherlands it goes.

Asrock are also Netherlands, but the only complaints I seen with them is a few bent pins while others have been ok, also an inverted mouse in the bios that is fixed with an updated bios.
 
BluSky said:
I have heard the asrock board can have problems with some large cpu coolers. If that is a consideration for you then I would go for one of the other boards. I would personally recommend the gigabyte board. I have had generally good experiences with them
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My Noctua D14 fits fine (and it's huge), so I'd have to disagree with that statement.
No problems at all with this board it's a pleasure to use :D
 
Stulid, in this post
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=20476114&postcount=16

you talk about the pci3, is what you've said going to be true for the ud5?, I like the gygabyte board as i'm familiar with them having had two amd boards and i like the fact it has a 20phase power setup, plus the lucid virtu etc i think may not be helpfull to me as when i'm on the desktop i tend to be using 3d software and therefore using my gfx card. An upgrade to ivybridge next year along with a new gfx card is possible so i'd prefer not to have to upgrade the motherboard aswell if i wanted to make use of pci3, not even sure if its something i should be worried about though tbh. I do really like the price of the msi board, if there was examples of how well it overclocks i think i would go for it, its just not a company i've heard much about.

Thanks for your help with this guys this is all very helpfull.
 
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