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SpiritOfTheAge

SpiritOfTheAge

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Ok im looking to upgrade my PC and thought this owuld be a decent set up, anyone got anything they would have instead (budget of around £400) better Motherboard? better CPU? is the ram ok? Id be looking to overclock to 4GHz.

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If you're going to be using air cooling then that ram will not fit under the cooler - so you'll only have 2ram slots rather than 4, could be rritating for potential upgrades.

I would swap the either XMS3 or GeIL PC3-12800C9.

There are better boards than the UD4 as well, the MSI P67A-GD55 does everything the ASUS does (ok, you loose a couple PCI slots and one PCI-E x4 slot - but you can't put a graphics card in that anyway :p) for a cheaper price
 
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Second spec is much better.

Agree with Cookeh
Pointless getting SB and not overclocking!
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No point getting the Core i5 - 2500K unless you plan to overclock in which case you need a decent CPU cooler.

If you plan to never overclock get the Core i5 - 2500 and save some dosh.

Personally I would buy retail over oem as you get longer warranty.
 
Mike306 said:
Second spec is much better.

Agree with Cookeh

No point getting the Core i5 - 2500K unless you plan to overclock in which case you need a decent CPU cooler.

If you plan to never overclock get the Core i5 - 2500 and save some dosh.

Personally I would buy retail over oem as you get longer warranty.
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Yeah going to overclock of course, so the OEM cooler is no good for that then? even for just 4GHz?

If so whats a decent cooler for a decent overclock?
 
Nope, not if you want to keep temperatures below 92 degrees :p

Decent coolers? Well, a Gelid Tranquillo will see you to 4.6GHz with decent temps. Recommended by CustomPC and Bit-tech.
 
There are plenty of decent coolers around, it comes down to your personal preferences really.

Things to consider:
How much are you going to overclock?
Are the lowest temperatures really important to you?
Is noise a major factor?
Do you what to keep all your RAM slots clear?

Suggest you take a look at the sites that review coolers, there are quite a few!
Start with Bit-tech, Kitguru,Vortez, Hardwareheaven
 
Mike306 said:
You can't overclock the i5 2500, you need the i5 2500K.
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Ever heard of a typo? :rolleyes:

I think he meant to say K otherwise he wouldn't have said overclock - everyone on this forum probably knows on K can be overclocked so cut people some slack.

OP, the Venom is a very good cooler and there are a good few dozen people on this forum that use them. I -think- (because haven't seen many benchmarks of the Venom) that the Venom is the better cooler - seems like it on paper, but there is ofc the price premium.
 
Cookeh said:
Ever heard of a typo? :rolleyes:

I think he meant to say K otherwise he wouldn't have said overclock - everyone on this forum probably knows on K can be overclocked so cut people some slack.

OP, the Venom is a very good cooler and there are a good few dozen people on this forum that use them. I -think- (because haven't seen many benchmarks of the Venom) that the Venom is the better cooler - seems like it on paper, but there is ofc the price premium.
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I went for Corsair Hydro H50 , but i like the funky looks of the Venom
 
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