New i7 Rig

[Chris]

Hi

I was thinking about upgrading my ageing system Q6600 (Stock), 4GB PC8500 DDR2 and 2 x 4870 (512Mb) with the following. I will be mostly playing games (1920x1080) and encoding Blu ray movies.

I already have 2 x OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB in RAID 0 & a Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB as my storage. It will be running Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit.

If anyone can spot some possible problems or can recommend some alternatives it would be much appreciated.

* Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel Kit
* Corsair H70 Liquid CPU Cooler
* Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58 (Socket 1366) Motherboard
* Intel Core i7 950 3.06Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail
* Corsair HX 850W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply
* LG CH10LS20 Blu-Ray Reader and DVDRW Black SATA - OEM
* Pallit GeForce GTX 580 1536MB DDR5 Dual DVI HDMI PCI Express - Retail

Collected from my local supplier for £1117.89

Thanks


Chris

 

[95thrifles]

Problems? No
Any sort of Need? Also NO
You could just buy a new gfx if your current gfx is struggling, and OC your Q6600, cost approx £200 (get something like a 6870) that set up is not worth 5-6times more than this upgrade route

 

[snaggster]

Problems? No
Any sort of Need? Also NO
You could just buy a new gfx if your current gfx is struggling, and OC your Q6600, cost approx £200 (get something like a 6870) that set up is not worth 5-6times more than this upgrade route

+1 to Oc'ing the q6600 and new dx11 gpu...

 

[Chris]

Hi

Thanks for the comments guys my Q6600 is one of the original chips 130w so I've never really had much luck overclocking it as it just gets too hot. I've read that 2 x 4870 are of similar performance to a 5870 just without the dx11 and isn't a 6870 slower than a 5870. It doesn't seem as if i would see that much gain in performance if any?

Any more comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Chris

 

[Liampope]

Personally I'd be waiting till the new year to see how the new Sandy Bridge i5/i7s overclock and bench against current i5/i7s.

 

[cmndr_andi]

Personally I'd be waiting till the new year to see how the new Sandy Bridge i5/i7s overclock and bench against current i5/i7s.

+1

To the OP -This preview is worth a read, and they are going to be being launched on January 5th.

Also, in mid-December the new top-end AMD cards are being released which will compete with the GTX 580 (HD 6970 and 6950). Hopefully these will perform well offering you an alternate graphics option and force the price of the GTX 580 down.

 

[95thrifles]

Yeah if you're happy waiting a month or two then go for that, the 6870 will be quite considerably faster as your 4870s are only the half gig versions as such will be quite memory limited at that resolution
I recomended the 6870 in case you want to go dual cards again in future as they scale very well