Final spec check....

Kerplunk

Kerplunk

Kerplunk

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Can you please check over this spec i'm soon to be purchasing, just want to make sure all is compatible and if anything can be changed for an alternative?

Thanks, budget is £1500, this takes me to about £1300

Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

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

Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit

Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD204UI)

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6950 TOXIC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics
Card with FREE DIRT3 & Deus Ex Games

Antec TruePower New Modular 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply

Samsung S27A550H 27" Widescreen Ultra Thin LED Monitor - Glossy Black

Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3)

Corsair Carbide 400R Midi Tower Case - Black

Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive

Many thanks!
 
The Venom cooler is to big for the RAM, it may even slightly block the 2nd dimm slot closest to the CPU socket (so you cant even use dimm 2+4) either swap the cooler for a closed loop water cooler such as a Corsair H60/Antec kuhler620 or swap the RAM to some XMS3 or kingston HyperX.

You can order this now as you get free delivery - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-094-KS

Aprt from that. looks great:)
 
Thanks mate, is there much difference in dual channel ram and triple channel?

Is it worth going for triple? :)
 
Kerplunk said:
Thanks mate, is there much difference in dual channel ram and triple channel?

Is it worth going for triple? :)
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The Sandybridge IMC is only dual channel, so thats what you want. triple channel RAM kits are for the outgoing socket 1366.

And do you have/need a DVD drive? if you already have one is it a IDE or SATA connection?
 
Ok so is it worth going over to the 1366 then? I could stretch if I needed to, but if its effectively the same as staying with dual channel, i'd probably stick with it...

I do have a DVD drive, it is a SATA connection :)
 
Kerplunk said:
Ok so is it worth going over to the 1366 then? I could stretch if I needed to, but if its effectively the same as staying with dual channel, i'd probably stick with it...
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No its not. Sandybridge CPU's are,

Cheaper.
Faster.
More power efficient.
More future proof platform, Ivybridge is socket 1155 also.
 
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