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

mattavich · 9 Dec 2012 at 21:09

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.

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

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.

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!

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