11 Overlockers OC-Bundles between £300-400, but which performs best?

mattavich · 9 Dec 2012 at 21:09

RJC · 9 Dec 2012 at 21:13

Personal choices would be one of the two below:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-122-OE

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-139-OE&groupid=43&catid=2384&subcat=2260

illuz · 9 Dec 2012 at 21:20

""Spectre Z77 Aqua" - Gorgeous bundle, oooozing with performance! Also, with that beast of a phanteks cooler I'm pretty sure you could push it a lot further than a 4.4GHz overclock, 4.7-8 if you really wanted to. Maybe higher if you get a golden chip!

mattavich · 9 Dec 2012 at 21:26

Thansk guys, will read your links now.

I went to cpubenchmark.net and looked at the results for CPU performance of each cpu, these are how they are ranked...

i7 2700K 8945
i5 3570K 7130
i5 2500K 6485
FX-6 6100 5388

I understand that the performance of a CPU in certain tasks is different from how it may perform in games so i'll get some second opinions on this. I think the AMD is out though, i'm too used to Intel to switch right now and it doesn't look like its too great even though it is a 6 core.

snips86x · 9 Dec 2012 at 21:27

My preference would be this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-141-OE&groupid=43&catid=2384&subcat=2260

Love the colour and that cooler is beautiful

mattavich · 9 Dec 2012 at 21:28

Any reason why you guys passed up the i7 2600k? Is the motherboard with that bundle not much good? I'm scared that the motherboard won't be very good if i go for what is supposed to be the most powerful CPU in the list of 11.

mattavich · 9 Dec 2012 at 21:31

It is as feared, the motherboard with the i7 2700k costs £36

mattavich · 9 Dec 2012 at 22:03

What about the spectre with a sniper-M3 board? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-140-OE

I'm see great reviews of this board around the net

zakblood · 9 Dec 2012 at 22:33

a pc is always the sum of all it's parts, when bench marking any ways, for gaming, well not so much in the real world tests like games and fps

bemaniac · 10 Dec 2012 at 09:06

I've bought a couple of overclocked bundles - don't count on being able to achieve 1 single mhz above hwat they've overclocked it to. It's like the chips are picked because they won't go any further.

TwsT · 10 Dec 2012 at 09:23

RJC said:
Personal choices would be one of the two below:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-122-OE

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-139-OE&groupid=43&catid=2384&subcat=2260

pretty much same for me. Excellent value for money imo

Bacon? · 10 Dec 2012 at 10:11

bemaniac said:
I've bought a couple of overclocked bundles - don't count on being able to achieve 1 single mhz above hwat they've overclocked it to. It's like the chips are picked because they won't go any further.

And which bundles would they be?

rjk · 10 Dec 2012 at 12:55

bemaniac said:
I've bought a couple of overclocked bundles - don't count on being able to achieve 1 single mhz above hwat they've overclocked it to. It's like the chips are picked because they won't go any further.

im sorry but this is a rather bold statement.

could you back this up with some actual numbers?

snips86x · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:58

rjkoneill said:
im sorry but this is a rather bold statement.

could you back this up with some actual numbers?

Some proof would be preferable?

Sure it's not PICNIC?!

mattavich · 12 Dec 2012 at 10:42

I chose the Spectre z77 mainly because of the great reviews online about the motherboard and the RAM. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-140-OE

The motherboard's interrogated audio is supposed to be superb, so i may ditch my xonar DS, the overclocking potential is supposed to be good too but i dont believe i'll be overclocking the 3570k much further unless i opt to get some watercooling.

Overall I just couldn't turn down the Sniper M3 after reading the reviews. i'd rather get a good motherboard and a lesser cpu than the other way around, the motherboard is the foundation.

Addicted · 12 Dec 2012 at 10:45

Good choice, you won't go wrong with that bundle!

mattavich · 12 Dec 2012 at 11:00

Addicted said:
Good choice, you won't go wrong with that bundle!

Thanks, i ran some 3dmark benchmarks last night wiht the qq6600 and gtx 670 to see what kind of performance imporvement i will get when i install the new bundle. Hoping for a nice increase!

Building PCs is addictive.

Decca · 12 Dec 2012 at 18:15

I have never built my own computer before, I'm looking into it as it does seem a lot cheaper and more fun! I shall be opening a thread for help soon enough!

I'm glad you have made your choice and I hope it was a good one.