A ZZZAC Thread: Project ZZZAC

ZZZAC said:
right im going to just get on with it.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-337-GI&tool=3

Had to spoil the surprise since you cant stop yapping about my seemingly **** cpu
also thinking this as future ivybridge platform, so........ going for this board.
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I would have probably got this motherboard:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-493-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

It is perfectly capable for the price. However,if you shop around you can get decent P67 motherboards for even cheaper.

The main advantage of the £120+ P67 and Z68 motherboards is symmetrical Crossfire/SLI support - if you are running a single card a cheaper motherboard would suffice.

Still that motherboard you linked to looks nice!:D

Regarding your CPU - the Core i5 2310 for £85 is a good value IMHO.

If you are running a single card setup especially I can see it easily lasting until the end of next year. Most games are using older engines still and a Core i5 will be fine.
 
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By the way when Martin mention the BLK it was in reference to you calling it the FSB - they overclock in the same way by raising the digits, but have different names. This is the only way you can overclock non 'K' chips using this BLK but I'm fairly sure you shouldn't raise it much more than something 103 (100 stock). May be wrong but be wary in your tinkering in case you break something, you wana keep this rig working! :)

Still good luck to you, despite not being a 2500k don't see why it won't eat through any current game - it's probably still much faster than anything from AMD in terms of gaming.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I would have probably got this motherboard:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-493-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

It is perfectly capable for the price. However,if you shop around you can get decent P67 motherboards for even cheaper.

The main advantage of the £120+ P67 and Z68 motherboards is symmetrical Crossfire/SLI support - if you are running a single card a cheaper motherboard would suffice.

Still that motherboard you linked to looks nice!:D

Regarding your CPU - the Core i5 2310 for £85 is a good value IMHO.

If you are running a single card setup especially I can see it easily lasting until the end of next year. Most games are using older engines still and a Core i5 will be fine.
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FINALY! i have someone that respects a choice of mine!
yeah im only getting that board because the price is a quality indicator, and well a certain competitor has a offer on bringing it to a killer price.
i did not order last night as my mum had been on the drink, but ill get her to tonight.
EDIT: i really need my own credit card
 
ZZZAC said:
FINALY! i have someone that respects a choice of mine!
yeah im only getting that board because the price is a quality indicator, and well a certain competitor has a offer on bringing it to a killer price.
i did not order last night as my mum had been on the drink, but ill get her to tonight.
EDIT: i really need my own credit card
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I saw the price!! Nice!!!!!:D

However,if you are not overclocking then this motherboard can be had for around £80:

http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z68V_LX/

It has SSD caching and monitor outputs too.

But still,I suppose the motherboard you are considering is quite nice for the price. It gives you options.

If you had got a Core i5 2500K,you could probably only have enough dosh for an H61 or H67 based motherboard.
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I saw the price!! Nice!!!!!:D

However,if you are not overclocking then this motherboard can be had for around £80:

http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z68V_LX/

It has SSD caching and monitor outputs too.

But still,I suppose the motherboard you are considering is quite nice for the price. It gives you options.

If you had got a Core i5 2500K,you could probably only have enough dosh for an H61 or H67 based motherboard.
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yeah, that would defeat the point a little
hmm lets get a overclockable chip... oh wait, i cant afford a overclocking motherboard...
i went got it, its just the price is 35% lowered, making it way to good to miss even though it still ended up like £25 more than my first choice board witch was the sapphire hydra p67.
EDIT: not going to lie, i hate asus boards, my board is asus, and almost dead, i have like 4-5 dead asus boards in my room, the only other 2 dead boards are intel and a very very old asus board
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
The reason you have 4-5 dead Asus boards in your room, is no doubt down to your love of buying faulty components though...
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Nope, most of them worked at the point i got them, but where from joblots,
2 boards got halfway through windows installation and they just refused to work
one i installed windows and the power phases went, so it detects a shot and doesnt even power up atall.
and my own personal board witch works but intermittently freezes and has allot of problems regarding achi and raid and audio...
 
ZZZAC said:
OURGH!!! I DONT WANT OR NEED TO OVERCLOCK! IVE SAID THIS ALREADY
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ZZZAC said:
overall i may be able to get 3.5ghz with the locked overclocking, and it will last me exactly the same time as a 2500k, as overclocking and 600mhz really is not much!
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hmm...

i would seriously reccomend reading a review on a sandy bridge system just so that you
a) know what everyone is talking about (in particular the difference between FSB/BE/BLK)
b) realise just how utterly useless any attempt to oc a non k sandy is.
 
I've got a ZAAAAACCCCINTOSH on my desktop at the moment.... all bare mobo + PSU + IDE drive

It's a Pentium 4 - 2.4ghz / Upgraded the RAM 256->768 by adding a couple of sticks that I found down the side of the sofa.

Also found a 9700 pro with a Zalman cooler on it just have to install SP2 and 3 .net before I can stick catalyst on it.

Wanna pic ? LOL
 
thingemajib said:
hmm...

i would seriously reccomend reading a review on a sandy bridge system just so that you
a) know what everyone is talking about (in particular the difference between FSB/BE/BLK)
b) realise just how utterly useless any attempt to oc a non k sandy is.
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OURGH!!!!! FACEPLAM
can you not read that im not even going to clock this chip? i mention i may give it a go, but thats if i have to, and lets face it, im not going to have to over-clock it.
Fsb is front side bus, and yes i know what that is.
BE is an ebriviation of black edition
and so is phenom blk


Subliminal Aura said:
I've got a ZAAAAACCCCINTOSH on my desktop at the moment.... all bare mobo + PSU + IDE drive

It's a Pentium 4 - 2.4ghz / Upgraded the RAM 256->768 by adding a couple of sticks that I found down the side of the sofa.

Also found a 9700 pro with a Zalman cooler on it just have to install SP2 and 3 .net before I can stick catalyst on it.

Wanna pic ? LOL
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AHAHAHAHA, :D
sounds like my kinda pc ;)
im joking, i hate a computer that takes 6 attempts to boot, and randomly crashes, but then again, i havent been gentle with it. kinda a odge job :D
this new build will not be, exept maybe the heatsinks fan will be glued on because the rubber things ultimately bent and broke fins in my heatsink.
board should come on Wednesday-ish-hopefully :D
 
ZZZAC said:
AHAHAHAHA, :D
sounds like my kinda pc ;)
im joking, i hate a computer that takes 6 attempts to boot, and randomly crashes, but then again, i havent been gentle with it. kinda a odge job :D
this new build will not be, exept maybe the heatsinks fan will be glued on because the rubber things ultimately bent and broke fins in my heatsink.
board should come on Wednesday-ish-hopefully :D
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No mate this is running perfect in the right hands :p

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looks.... clean :D
but tbh when i took mine out the case it was cleaner, i even used it to dry my phone :D
EDIT: i somehow sold a rig like that with sli 7800gtx's a socket 939 dual core and 2gb ddr1 :D
 
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ZZZAC said:
OURGH!!!!! FACEPLAM
can you not read that im not even going to clock this chip?
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i thought the qutoes i pulled from this very thread suggested otherwise :p

and blk (not sure if its back clock or bus clock) is the clock generator on a sandy motherboard, defaulted to 100mhz, basically like the old style FSB. Only diffference is that everything is tied to the blk on a sandy board, traditionally things like pcie, sata and so on had there own clock generators as they are very sensitive to change. hence why sandy boards have a habit of crashing after only 3-4mhz increase of blk. I have never before seen it being used in reference to phenom blacks (BE)
 
thingemajib said:
i thought the qutoes i pulled from this very thread suggested otherwise :p

and blk (not sure if its back clock or bus clock) is the clock generator on a sandy motherboard, defaulted to 100mhz, basically like the old style FSB. Only diffference is that everything is tied to the blk on a sandy board, traditionally things like pcie, sata and so on had there own clock generators as they are very sensitive to change. hence why sandy boards have a habit of crashing after only 3-4mhz increase of blk. I have never before seen it being used in reference to phenom blacks (BE)
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i have :L
but anyway sorry for the confusion :)
and yeah, ive decided against even trying to clock it up a lil, as its more than enough power
 
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Boycey0211 said:
4 pages and you've bought the processor. I look forward to page 38 where you buy the case!
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ourgh this is just a system upgrade not a fresh project, everyone should notice that my stacker has only been picture once or twice while tearing the rig down. what you don't realise is im actually only a day away from receiving the board (fingers crossed royal mail) and im only a board away from building this system, but obviously i plan on maybe go ssd caching and crossfire maybe.ect
thanks for taking note....
 
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