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get the 2600K, P67A-UD4-B3 and the 2x4GB EMS3 and a aftermarket cooler if he can stretch the litle extra payment, it will be worth it
 
Yeah the only thing I'd say is change the CPU to a 2600k, chuck in a cooler and then you can overclock it but if you don't wanna go down that road its a sweet set up
 
Youve gone for a full tower case but micro ATX board? Get the vertex 2/3 series not the original, preff 3 or 2 if you want to keep price down.
Other than that add an aftermarket cooler and OC as you can easily push some more out of the CPU without any effort.
 
chris_uk333 said:
Is that for over clocking reasons? He won't be over clocking i should have added
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yes it was. thought he may overclock for gaming reasons

otherwise keep what you got, its all good

Edit : you should try to get a gigabyte MB as their RMA is uk based if u should require a RMA
 
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Thats basically what i would go for. Paste is pre-applied to stock cooler so no need.
Obviously influenced by myself a little but change whatever you thinks appropriate.

Edit: Are you sure? The board does say - Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules (Although im not sure if it does or not but done see why it wouldnt.)
 
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imo I would keep the p67 board and buy a 2600k (sell the free game to recover the cost - brand new game too) and then if he ever does want to venture into the overclocking world he can, plus its real easy on the sandybridge chips apparently. And just buy a cooler another time if he does.
 
sk82jack said:
imo I would keep the p67 board and buy a 2600k (sell the free game to recover the cost - brand new game too) and then if he ever does want to venture into the overclocking world he can, plus its real easy on the sandybridge chips apparently. And just buy a cooler another time if he does.
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Agree i would do this, its so easy to overclock it for a significant performance gain its worth doing.
 
If he's focused on gaming then he'd be better off with an i5 rather than an i7. If he's adamant that he won't overclock then you can save money by getting a less expensive motherboard. The PSU is fine, you could even get away with a cheaper one and save more money there.

The 2 Vertex 1s are a bad decision imo. They're up to the Vertex 3 now, which are meant to be a lot faster than the first ones. Instead, I'd suggest 1 x Vertex 3 and something like a 1TB HDD. You could even consider two fast spinning discs in RAID0 instead.

I'd also say to get 2x4GB in terms of RAM, rather than 4x2GB.
 
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