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lee20010

lee20010

lee20010

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Pay day in 6 days and I will have £450 to upgrade with.

I have my i5 2500k arriving today (I gave up with AMD) My Ram is sorted, so it's a matter of a mobo, gfx card and an SSD. I didn't really want to buy an SSD, but when it takes my PC around 5 mins from boot to being able to use it, plus programs are a tad slow (Should point out my OS is installed on a Cavier Green HDD, which is slow)

I might get the Asus Gen 3 board but I've found it elsewhere for £20 less. The pc needs to last at least a year, probably Xfire or SLI after new year.
 
 
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yes, the Tranquillo will handle 4.4Ghz - 4.6GHz comfortably.

without the mobo

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with FREE Batman: Arkham City PC game** £233.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £74.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
Total : £346.37 (includes shipping : £9.50).

if you dont think youll make use of Gen3 boards,
this has all the Z68 features and does SLI/CF at 8x 8x
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-368-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

so, revised spec.....god my specs are all over the place :D

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with FREE Batman: Arkham City PC game** £233.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £99.98
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £74.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
Total : £446.35 (includes shipping : £9.50).

 
Why? Is Gen3 just a marketing thing like Sata3? Also is the M4 better then the ocz ssd? And does it require the same as a normal sata drive or a sata controller??
 
lee20010 said:
Why? Is Gen3 just a marketing thing like Sata3? Also is the M4 better then the ocz ssd? And does it require the same as a normal sata drive or a sata controller??
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gen 3 is like sata 3, it is the new specification which SOME things can use, not all of them need that bandwidth

m4 is a lot more stable than ocz ssd, a lot less error reports

same as a normal sata drive
 
OK, to be honest, can someone spec a non gigabyte mobo the one I have no (ordered 4 days ago) has completely put me off them
 
Sweet, I must admit the M4 speeds did seem slower then other SSD's but if the fireware has sorted that then great. Could someone suggest a mobo that isn't Gigabyte, I bought my current mobo a few days ago and it's given me nothing but hassle. Hence why I'm given up and gone Intel
 
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