£350 upgrade

[xb8browney]

Hello,

I've got a nice bonus coming next month and I want to set a little aside for a upgrade but I haven't been keeping an eye on the best chip sets etc..

I'd like

cpu 2500k?
motherboard I tend to go for Gigabyte
ram 8gb
cooler

I mainly play bf3


if anyone could give me some feedback please I really don't want to go over £350.

 

[xb8browney]

Hi,

Do you want the option of SLI/Crossfire in the future?
What case do you have?
Are your drives all SATA?

Thanks for the reply

I wont be doing sli/crossfire

I have a NZXT Alpha case

I only have the one drive which is a SSD

 

[xb8browney]

This if you dont,


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard REV 1 £84.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £38.39
1 x Zalman CNPS10X Extreme CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/775/1155/1156/1366) £26.99
Total : £341.75 (includes shipping : £9.50).




Assuming of course the answers to my questions

That's the same spec I done but with a different cooler.

Thanks for your input

 

[xb8browney]

Cool, you dont have a DVD drive then?

But for what you said, my cheaper spec is ample, the motherboard is Ivybridge ready and has excellent reviews, seems to overclock well also,

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2011/10/11/gigabyte-ga-z68ap-d3-review/1
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/gigabyte_z68ap-d3_review/1
http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/gigabyte_ga_z68ap_d3_review,1.html
http://www.kitguru.net/components/m...-z68ap-d3-z68-review-bargain-buy-of-the-year/

Yeah I have a DVD drive

£330 sounds nice and if I got >£100 for my current kit that would be great.

Like I said I've always preferred gigabyte and the fact it's ivy bridge ready is a bonus.

 

[xb8browney]

I've sold my CPU, motherboard and ram so I'm going to be ordering a new spec on Thursday.

What is the best cooler to get for >£27 please

 

[xb8browney]

I meant up to £27 thanks for the reply

 

[xb8browney]

I've bought the kit now but I'm temporarily running 5Gb any way I've just tried BF3...same settings I've always used and it's playing really bad like when turning round it jerks? I've had to reduce some settings and the GPU fan is quite loud compared to normal

Any ideas?

 

[xb8browney]

I done a fresh install and download latest drivers

 

[xb8browney]

What RAM did you get?

Are you mixing different sets of RAM to get 5gb?

Yeah, it's only temporary though.