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MatthewC1991

MatthewC1991

MatthewC1991

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Had an Alienware gaming laptop and found it to be a total waste so decided to sell it and try and build hopefully a good gaming PC, im a complete noob when it comes to components and such so can you guys give me opinions on what iv bought

Motherboard - ASUS P8Z68 v/gen3 intel z68 board

Cpu - Core i5 2500k 4.4 Ghz OC

cpu cooler - Arctic Cooling Freezer 13

Ram - Corsair Vengeance DDR3 8gb 1600hz

Video Card - Asus GTX 670

Hard Drive - Seagate 1TB Barracuda Hard Drive

Optical Drive - Samsung DVD

Case - Coolmaster HAF 912

PSU - OCZ ModXSTream Pro 700w Modular Fan

Monitor - Acer S240HLbid

OS - Windows 7 HP 64bit
 
MatthewC1991 said:
from what iv researched, the i5 2500k is a more than capable CPU and its a good price and is my motherboard a bad one?
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The Ivy cpu is around 10% faster, and it gets hot, only when you get too 4.5 gHz
The sandy bridge 5.0gHz = ivy bridge 4.5 gHz
The ivy bridge has a lower TDP
 
MatthewC1991 said:
from what iv researched, the i5 2500k is a more than capable CPU and its a good price and is my motherboard a bad one?
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YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 670 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £323.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £103.99
1 x OCZ ZT 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £44.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £43.19
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011/1366/1155/1156/775/ AMD AM3/AM3+/AM2/AM2+/FM1) £26.39
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-7280S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £831.50 (includes shipping : £12.50).



That covers some of what you need. The Ivybridge OEM CPU is on offer at the same price as the i5 2500K ;) It's a good £20 cheaper than it's retail version and this basically pays for that excellent heatsink that is on offer too :) The IB CPU has a better IGP (more on that later), consumes less power, although it's more a tweak than a leap it still should be the CPU to aim for.

I've used a SLI/Xfire capable mobo, the Z77 can use the IGP to boost the GPU, a Z68 can't do this (unless you buy the lucidMVP software).Included a modular PSU that could power two 670s if you wanted to. Had you given us a budget as i asked before it would be easier to spec you kit
 
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Oh, you bought it! Thats great then :)
The GPU is great and the CPU is also very good :)
Will play everythink at full HD max settings( I think) for about a year or two, then play lower settings :)
 
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