Advice on system upgrade

Rikk · 17 Nov 2011 at 11:08

Been out of the loop a fair while and just wanted a sanity check on what I intend to order.
The machine will be pretty much purely for games, I understand the I5 is a better cpu for gaming and I went for the H80 for the quiet, although I assume the fans will need changing?

Will I be able to get a 3.4-3.6 OC out of this setup without any problems?

I have a fairly old PSU (corsair HX 620w ATX 2.2) have the MB connection changed in the pass few years or will this still be ok?

(already have a 560Ti SOC)

Asus P8Z68 DELUXE GEN3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor

Corsair Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler

Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit

Thanks

...........Rikk

fowler002 · 17 Nov 2011 at 11:24

3.4/3.6ghz? are we back in the q6600 days?

the i2500k is 3.3ghz already so what do you think?
you'll get 4.6ghz easy, 4.8 shouldn't be too hard either.

unless you need the extras of the deluxe version maybe worth saving and going for the pro

Rikk · 17 Nov 2011 at 11:36

Thanks for the comments, Ooops, cough....yep meant 4+

I'd like to stick to the delux for a bit of future proofing with regard to SLI and the PCI 3 as I can see myself getting another 560ti at some point soon.

fowler002 · 17 Nov 2011 at 15:12

Rikk said:
Thanks for the comments, Ooops, cough....yep meant 4+

I'd like to stick to the delux for a bit of future proofing with regard to SLI and the PCI 3 as I can see myself getting another 560ti at some point soon.

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what pro version have you been looking at? the p8z68v-pro(and -pro/gen3) both HAVE sli compatibility, the deluxe has the front panel usb3 + a few extra sta and what not for £30 extra, the -pro/gen has the pci-e 3.0 tho its not sli/xfire compatible when it comes to pci-e 3.0 cards(neither is the deluxe version for that matter) as far as I've read only the 1st slot gets pci-e 3.0 from the ivybridge cpu(sandbridge doesn't have the controller for this so you have to upgrade if you want pci-e 3.0) but this is not relavent to the 560ti sli(only relavent if you want to go sli/xfire with a pci-e 3.0 graphics card in the future).

upto you if the £30 is worth it or not.