Components any good?

sk82jack · 2 Jun 2011 at 15:34

Moothead2 said:
Check out this before you decide between the two to see if one card performs better in a game/s you play.

And remember to compare for the resolution you will be gaming at

TheYoungster · 2 Jun 2011 at 16:34

sk82jack said:
the b2 revisions had problems with the SATA 3GB/s ports and had to be recalled and replaced with b3 revisions.

H67/61 doesn't allow overclocking but has integrated graphics and supports Quick Sync for accelerated video encoding iirc - Z68 is a combination of both + SSD caching.

combination of the p67 and the h67? so you can overclokc and do all the things you can on the h67?

sk82jack · 2 Jun 2011 at 17:15

yep, well....most. some of the z68 boards don't have integrated graphics such as most of the gigabyte boards and some Asus ones and so they won't have lucid virtu or quick sync but they still have overclocking and ssd caching.

TheYoungster · 3 Jun 2011 at 01:43

sk82jack said:
yep, well....most. some of the z68 boards don't have integrated graphics such as most of the gigabyte boards and some Asus ones and so they won't have lucid virtu or quick sync but they still have overclocking and ssd caching.

Ah cheers for that, i was thinking is it beneficial to use a ssd for my os and primary applications (primary applications>) and if so, what size am i looking at for that?

cmndr_andi · 3 Jun 2011 at 01:47

Yea, if you can afford at least a 60GB SSD (~£95) then you are better off installing the OS and apps onto that as the primary instead of messing around with SSD caching.

If I was buying today I would ideally be going for at least a 120GB drive so you can fit all your apps on it and a few games, this drive is very quick and a great price at the moment.

stulid · 3 Jun 2011 at 01:47

TheYoungster said:
Ah cheers for that, i was thinking is it beneficial to use a ssd for my os and primary applications (primary applications>) and if so, what size am i looking at for that?

60gb at least.

fleming222 · 3 Jun 2011 at 09:13

Go for the i5 if you can stump the extra cash.

TheYoungster · 13 Jun 2011 at 18:35

just would like a quick spec check, ive faffed about with it so much it is unreal, every day sinnce i opened this thread its changed A LOT. It has dipped between AMD and intel and lots of different things.
Currently I am happy with what I have, is there a big difference between the i7 2600k and the i5 2500k? would it be worth the little extra for it?

scrlk · 13 Jun 2011 at 20:18

TheYoungster said:
just would like a quick spec check, ive faffed about with it so much it is unreal, every day sinnce i opened this thread its changed A LOT. It has dipped between AMD and intel and lots of different things.
Currently I am happy with what I have, is there a big difference between the i7 2600k and the i5 2500k? would it be worth the little extra for it?

Nope.