Is This Worth It?

Stealth97

Stealth97

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Hello Guys
I Want to buy the following components to build a OCed Gaming Computer.

Here's what I am thinking of buying:

Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail
£227.99
Asrock Z68 PRO3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
£99.98
Corsair Hydro H60 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
£59.99
Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB
£47.99

All coming to a total price of £363.29 ex VAT £447.35 inc VAT.
Do you think its worth it.
I reckon i can get it to 4.5Ghz at least and it will be very good.
I'm also going to put my existing ATi Radeon HD5770 1024MB GDDR5.

What sort of games will i be able to play with this and what sort of FPS.

Thanks in advance.
 
I5 2500k and get the asrock gen3 z68 board, has pcie 3.0 if you upgrade to ivy bridge later. The 5770 is a bit weak :/

Edit: keep the 5770 for now to see what the 7000 series are like :)
 
5770 will do the job for now, see benchmark below for rough fps, have compared it to a GTX 460 so you get a rough idea of it compared to mid-priced modern cards.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/172?vs=180

2500k for gaming, 2600k if you do heavy video editing. Bench for comparison
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=287

From comparing the two benchmarks on Crisis:Warhead @ 1680x1050 the CPU can reach around 90 fps but the GPU would end up bottlenecking at around 30fps.
 
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Stealth97 said:
So from the benchmarks you have sent me you are basicly saying the i7 is better if i intend on doing Video Editing and gaming and the i5 would be better Value for money if I was going to just be gaming.

Well anyway it will be Many times better that what i have now.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/66?vs=287
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That's effectively it, when it comes to gaming there is very little/no difference in performance between the i5 2500K and i7 2600K. The £ saved if you do go for a 2500K could be spent on a better graphics card when you upgrade it and would offer more bang for buck IMO.
 
Most games are console ports, hence due to this they usually only use around two cores, with recent games only coming with support for quad. Hence, the 2500K is the best chip to get if you only plan to game as the 2600K's hyperthreading will be unused and will just generate more heat. 2500K tends to clock higher on a lower voltage from what I've seen so far.
 
Stealth97 said:
So from the benchmarks you have sent me you are basicly saying the i7 is better if i intend on doing Video Editing and gaming and the i5 would be better Value for money if I was going to just be gaming.
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That's because the i7 2600K stock clock is 3.4GHz, whereas the i5 2500K stock clock is 3.3GHz. If you are overclocking, there's not much difference between the two on the same clock speed.

For gaming, you'd better off getting the 2500K, and put the money saved toward a faster graphic card.
 
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail
£169.99

Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
£159.98

Corsair Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/LGA2011/AM2/AM3)
£79.98

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9)
£23.99

Total = £445.34

4GB ram is enough for gaming, 2500k is fine for gaming, Motherboard and CPU cooler are better. Can save some money by going for something like the Silver Arrow over the H80 but it depends on size of case and whether you have your mind set on a closed loop WC setup.

Just as a side note, the price of these 2500ks seem to be going up at an alarming rate on OCUK:rolleyes:.
 
The 2600K will be better for video editing. For me, rendering a 15 min, 1080p vid takes around 10 minutes. I would imagine for the 2500K it would take around 15-20 mins perhaps. Hyperthreading at most gives about an extra 50% performance.
 
Stealth97 said:
But what about if i intend to game and record with fraps and create videos .

Which one would i be better off with?
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Irrelevant. The 2500K has more than enough overhead for 1080p capture. It's having a separate drive to write to that frees the bottleneck.

Eitherway converting an fraps capture to AVI takes seconds.
 
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