New build, Ivy or Sandy from Q6600.

gpherber

gpherber

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Looking to upgrade my system which is now getting old, and a little unstable (no longer listens to usb keyboard input during boot, and occasionally resets with no warning). My Current Specs are:
Q6600 at Stock
4GB Crucial Ballistix @ 800MHz
Asrock P45XE
XFX AMD Radeon HD6870 1GB
2 x Vertex 2E 60GB
2x 750GB Samsung F1
Antex TruPower New 650W
Corsair 650D Case

Budget is £500, Based on any Gigabyte Sandbridge board or the Z77X-UD5H Ivy bridge board and include a HSF that is silent (14dB or less). System will be mainly used for Diablo 3, Civilisation V, Photoshop and Handbrake.

MUST be intel.

Thanks Gary
 
have you dusted your pc recently?
and overclocking the q6600 may help (when its stable of course)
if you're using a stock heatsink, may want to invest in a 3rd party heatsink to see if it helps on your current rig before splashing out 500 quid
 
It had a good dust out when i got my Corsair 650D a few weeks ago, cables are all tidied so the airflow is great and the temps are easily within normal range. I'm pretty sure the motherboard is failing. I dont overclock because the extra heat would mean more cooling would be needed and therefore more noise.

Already using a third party heatsink, a Zalman flower cooler. The system maybe resets maybe once every couple of weeks, or the usb ports start going agonisingly slow when accessing my Buffalo external harddrive (which works great connected to my Dell 10v). I have considered replacing the motherboard, but as I use OSX on here alongside Windows and Linux, my motherboard choices are very limited if I stick with the socket 775, mainly P45 based boards which are next to impossible to get hold of.

If I upgrade, which chip would you suggest I go for?

Gary
 
if you really wanna upgrade, i'd say get:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £84.98
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 140 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3) £39.95
Total : £417.31 (includes shipping : £9.50).




the ssd to consolidate your 2 ssd into 1 (and also being a faster ssd)
 
You forgot the RAM :P I'm on DDR2 at the moment, but still looks good. How do you post those listings? I've never worked out how.
 
 
id go with sandy bridge, just because they are renowned for OCing. (well, 2500k specifically) just avoid the 2550k, it is useless. slightly faster clock, no graphics built in.
 
 
Looks ok, the retail cpu is around £12 ~ more and offers 2 years extra warranty and a cooler and comes in a fancy box.
 
squarehead94 said:
id go with sandy bridge, just because they are renowned for OCing. (well, 2500k specifically) just avoid the 2550k, it is useless. slightly faster clock, no graphics built in.
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The latest Sandy's seem to b having problems getting high OC speeds though and the Ivy's are better clock for clock. So a 4.4 Ivy is just as good if not better than a 4.8 Sandy.
 
If got the 2500k instead and overclocked it, how much extra heat would it produce? would the Noctua cooler cope at about half speed when they system is under load? I tend to queue videos to be encoded overnight and the pc will be in my room. Current rig is silent (HDDs are the noisest component).
 
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