New Setup

Jonners · 16 Jan 2013 at 10:59

It's been a long time coming, since I got a new PC so thought I'd treat myself to the below:

Product Name Price Qty Line Total
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £139.99 1 £139.99
Gigabyte Z77N-WIFI Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £74.99 1 £74.99
BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case - Midnight Black £48.32 1 £48.32
OcUK Tech Labs - Corsair H60 Performance Intel Liquid Cooling Solution (Socket 1155 / 1156 / 1366) £26.99 1 £26.99
Chosen Option
No Fan Required £0.00 1 £0.00
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No Fan Required £0.00 1 £0.00
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No Thermal Paste Required £0.00 1 £0.00
Akasa AK-FN055 Quiet Pearl White 120mm Fan - 3 Pin £4.99 2 £9.98
FREE SHIPPING (DPD Next Day): £0.00
VAT: £60.05
Order Total: £360.32

I will be hoping to salvage my 500gb Hard Drive, 60gb Vertex 2E SSD, Hiper Type M 580w PSU

and ATi 4850...to place in the above...hmmm

Seems a good deal for £360 would you think?

Jonners · 16 Jan 2013 at 11:43

Is the H60 plenty powerful enough to cool the i5 3570k?

The tubings diameter looks a bit small?

I wish to overclock and don't see sky high temps

Jonners · 16 Jan 2013 at 12:21

I can upgrade the GPU and PSU later...

GPU might be a bottleneck but atleast it has 1gb GDDR3

Jonners · 16 Jan 2013 at 12:41

Roll on tomorrow.

Should be an interesting day.

4.2ghz if that's all I can get, so be it...

Order Status: COMPLETE

When do I receive the tracking number?

Cheers

Jonners · 16 Jan 2013 at 18:30

Spec me a PSU then guys?

I was looking at OcUK Crusade or OcUK Batte Modular branded ones? :confused:

Jonners · 16 Jan 2013 at 19:10

Will the Hiper Type M be alright for a week or two?!

XFX ones look the part...what about Corsair?

Say I change my Hiper Type M 580w for a XFX 550w am I really going to benefit? OK it is probably safer that I do so, but for a power point of view? :confused:

Jonners · 16 Jan 2013 at 19:18

I'd be looking at around 50-60£

Jonners · 16 Jan 2013 at 19:29

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-117-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1084

I know it's out of stock here, but there's a store I can nip to before I come home from work tomorrow that has them available...

How does that stack up?

If no good I shall order the Antec

Either one has to fit in the Bitfenix Case, it can't be too big?

Jonners · 17 Jan 2013 at 23:26

All arrived today, and humming away nicely now.

Took a while to construct what with the getting used to the smaller space to work with my big Hands

and with cable tidying. putting the the fans on the Rad etc, oh and I had to nip out for some Thermal Paste...time all adds up

Thanks OcUK for the 2 packs of Haribo, was a nice gesture, I will munch on them tomorrow.

*I did just plug in my 60gb SSD and everything worked straight away, didn't reinstall Win 7, coming from H55 to Z77 Chipset :eek:

Jonners · 18 Jan 2013 at 13:13

I ended up not buying a PSU, but it is on my to do list...

To me the temps come across as a touch high, even in bios the CPU temp is like 34c...can't be correct surely?

I thought the H60 kept things cooler than that? The Water Block looks mounted correctly. Or is it my choice of Fans?

:confused: