5 year upgrade part 2 (Ivy Bridge)

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I posted a week ago about my long overdue upgrade from a Q6600 and everybody said wait for Ivy Bridge.

I want plenty of CPU power for a poorly optimised simulation I've been running, low latency RAM is also important but I'm not going to pre-order anything exotic, just what's in stock.

Here is what I now have:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £109.99
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 650W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXV2UK) £74.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £72.00
1 x OCZ Vertex 3 60GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (VTX3-25SAT3-60G) £64.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Windowed Case - Black/Green £59.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLE2CP4G3D1608DE1TX0CEU) £49.99
1 x OcUK GeForce GT 430 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £35.99
1 x Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939/AM2/AM3/775/1155/1156/1366) £19.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
1 x Samsung SH-D163C/BEBE SATA 16x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £709.39 (includes shipping : £11.25).



The graphics card is to go in my fiancée's new PC (my old one!) I've taking my ATI 5870 with me.

I'm getting two 1tb Samsung spinpoint f3s elsewhere for RAID 0.

Any pointers? Not convinced this will actually have more muscle then the Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz rig I had designed but at least I can afford a SSD now. Shame I don't have the quad channel 2133mhz RAM any more either or the 10mb CPU cache. Is it really going to be better?
 
Look's good, I'd swap the SSD for this one.

Also I dont know if youll have problems with the RAM heatsinks and the cooler... Hopefully someone will be along to tell you soon enough.
 
Unless your going to be using something Hyperthreading heavy you don't really need the SB-E stuff plus quad cores aren't even being used fully anyway. There are rare occassions when some programs will use all the functions of a hex core CPU but it is so very very rare tbh. You see to be alright Id maybe change the RAM for something thats low profile so the cooler doesn't interfer with it.
 
If you plan on overclocking this CPU then perhaps you may want to hold off from buying just yet. Apparently these new Ivy Bridges use a different thermal construct between the die and IHS that's not as efficient thus causes excess heat when the CPU is overclocked. IMHO Intel will rethink this at the next stepping update and has likely done this to keep Sandy Bridge sales higher as they shift inventory.
 
You can theoretically keep an 3570k @ 4.6Ghz with temps in the mid 60s for max with high end air cooling (Phanteks/Alphenfohn K2) I went completely nuts last night whilst drunk and bought IB components when I said I was going to wait for the next stepping. But I guess if theres a next stepping and something went wrong with my chip I could always RMA it and get the new stepping.
 
The program I'm worried about only uses 1 core and lower CAS Latency is better, it was optimised for a P4 with running RAM with a CL of 2.

I did like the look of the Samsung RAM RJC but it has a CL of 11, of the other you suggested the other two are 9. Shame they stick those heatsinks on all the best RAM especially if you aren't planning on OCing.

Am I right in thinking the 3570K doesn't actually come with a fan and sink? I'm not planning on OCing much if at all so could I get away with a low profile one? Or do you think the Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler is less likely to get in the way with RAM with heatsinks?

Thanks!
 
If you don't plan to OC the retail 3570k comes with a heatsink :) most of the time you can remove the fins from high profile RAM they are just there for looks. Not sure what the warranty stand point is.
 
Thanks Idleman, forgot that, somebody told me that before. Guess I can always get a cable converter later on if I get another card in SLI of Crossfire.

Good to know Ollie, thanks.
 
No problem mate. Just make sure to get retail (which right now is all that OCuk has anyway) and you should always go retail on CPU's due to that nice long warranty :)
 
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