24 Mar 2012 at 19:19 #2 stulid stulid Caporegime Joined 17 Jan 2010 Posts 66,731 Location weston-super-mare Yes it all fits. Do you need the power/features of a i7 chip? as for gaming a i5 2500K is plenty - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=523 YOUR BASKET 1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 680 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £419.99 1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99 1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) £139.99 1 x Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £129.98 1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £109.99 1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1156/1155/1366/AM2/AM2+/AM3/AM3+/FM1) £59.99 1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £49.99 1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £39.95 Total : £1,133.38 (includes shipping : £11.25). • Overclock that CPU to atleast 4.5Ghz • Could even get a SSD. Last edited: 24 Mar 2012
Yes it all fits. Do you need the power/features of a i7 chip? as for gaming a i5 2500K is plenty - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=523 YOUR BASKET 1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 680 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £419.99 1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99 1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) £139.99 1 x Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £129.98 1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £109.99 1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1156/1155/1366/AM2/AM2+/AM3/AM3+/FM1) £59.99 1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £49.99 1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £39.95 Total : £1,133.38 (includes shipping : £11.25). • Overclock that CPU to atleast 4.5Ghz • Could even get a SSD.
24 Mar 2012 at 20:20 #3 Mahn Mahn Associate OP Joined 22 Mar 2012 Posts 17 ~~ Last edited: 22 Oct 2013
24 Mar 2012 at 20:24 #4 stulid stulid Caporegime Joined 17 Jan 2010 Posts 66,731 Location weston-super-mare Cant argue with that