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YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus HD 7950 DirectCU II V2 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £257.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UP4 TH Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £167.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Thermalright Silver Arrow SB-E CPU Cooler (Socket LGA 2011/1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3/FM1) £58.79
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
Total : £690.74 (includes shipping : £10.00).
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YUM YUM YUM! No need to spend this much on a motherboard, but it's a lovely board no doubt, I love mine and at the price range I wouldn't really consider much else other than http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-219-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261 because it look's so sweet.
I think the Asus is a bit expensive for a 7950, but I like it thanks to the Asus backplate it comes with, the DirectCUII is a pretty good cooler too. Triple slot though like my Accelero cooler.
I have 8Gb ram, playing BF3 it never reaches anywhere near 8Gb, and that's with a 1Gb RAMDisk running my pagefile and caches.
With cooler you can usually easily reach 4.4-4.5GHz with 3570K, though tbh your cooler you have now should take it to 4.0-4.2GHz without much voltage increase at all, if any.
I like the first one more, id save £60 straight off with the cooler as id use mine untill i know how it fairs up, its been a cracking cooler so far so why change what works.
The gigabyte board is where i would more likely go over the MSI as ive no experience with MSI, so im more torn to what i know and trust.
Cheers for them Brain mate.