My new bundle - initial thoughts

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I just put together a bundle of

  • Asus P8P67LE
  • i5 2400
  • 8GB of Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey
  • Zalman CNPS10X Cooler

I must say, I'm very impressed. It's a world of difference from my old c2d system. It's made a huge difference to modern games where the dual core was bottlenecking my 5850. I didn't really get it as a system to be overclocked (hence not getting a 'K' cpu), but I may have a play later :)

BIOS design has come on leaps in the last 4 years hasn't it! Shame there were no spare USB brackets in the motherboard box. Had to buy another two.

The Zalman keeps things on pretty even temperatures even under load. Though the fan is a bit noisy, so I may see how the old fan from my Scythe Ninja is as a replacement.

Sleep works, but isn't being auto triggered by the power plan, I must need to tweak something else in Windows other than "allow to sleep when sharing media". May be a USB device keeping it awake I guess.

Recommended & usual fast shipping by ocuk!
 
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Get rid of the P67 chipset and get the Z68 chipset.

The P67 chipset is only really good for overclocking. The Z68 is a combination of the overclocking abilities of the P67 chipset and the onboard graphics ability of the H67 chipset.

So it is the best current intel chipset going.

Apart from that, looks good apart from that CPU, if possible get the i5 2500k.
 
I see what you're saying :)

Still, I installed the Asus AI Suite monitoring tools & set the fan control to 'intelligent'. It's barely audible at the desktop now as it spins the fan down when the cpus not hot. Sleep seems ok too, maybe I just needed a reboot :)
 
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