Ordered a new PC!

Steve M

Steve M

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Just wanted to share my excitement with you all.

I’ve just purchased a new gaming system from Overclockers. Its the "Ultima Death Adder" system and i’ve gone for:

- Case: Antec 300 Gaming Case
- Power Supply: OCZ ZS 650 Bronze 80+ Rated PSU
- CPU: Intel Core i7 960 3.20GHz Bloomfield overclocked to 3.40GHz
- Motherboard: Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
- Cooler: OcUK H2 Flo Extreme Cooler
- RAM: 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 Triple Channel Kit
- Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB 6GB/s SATA-II 32MB Cache & SSD Options
- Graphics Card: HIS ATI Radeon 6870 1024MB
- Sound: Onboard HD 7.1 Audio
- Optical Drive: Samsung DVD Optical Drive

= £750 inc.

This will be a massive improvement over my current PC which is:

AMD X2 6000+
4GB DD2
Nvidia 8800GT.

I’m looking to play the latest games (MW3, F1 2011 ect) on full detail. My display is an LG 42” LCD tv running at 1920 x 1080. This new rig should be able to handle that?

Cant wait!
 
more or less, you might not quite max out every setting with that card, but should still be able to play on high (maybe not ultra) without AA, but you can add another 6870 later for xfire and a performance boost if needed. But overall it will be a much better system yes :D
 
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Yeah. My current PC is even struggling with Football Manager 2012 and the 3d match engine was like a slide show and general processing through the game pretty slow with the number of leagues i want to run.

I also do some photography and CS5 and Lightroom are becoming painful to use run as so slow..

I'm sat here though feeling very guilty at chucking £750 at a PC. Having said that i should get quite a few years out of this new beast.
 
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Cheers!

Looking forward to getting on Modern Warfare 3. Just waiting on an e-mail from Overclockers confirming it's ready then i'll be driving down to collect it :)
 
It's a big step up from what you had but it's old tech. You could have had the Titan 7300i with a similar spec for more or less the same price and had a 2500k clocked to 4.4Ghz.
 
I did look at that one. My system though comes with 6GB of ram compared with 4GB with the Titan 7300i and a 1TB drive compared with the 500 GB.

Also the i7 960 Bloomfield is a match for the i5 2500k?
 
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Also the i7 960 Bloomfield is a match for the i5 2500k?
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It will be a bit slower than the 2500K, but not hugely. But the main difference is that due to it being on the old 45nm process, it will be higher power consumption, thus the CPU will run a bit hotter.

The biggest disadvantage is that the socket 1366 is a dead-end socket, whereas if you went for the 2500K on the socket 1155, you would still have upgrade path to future CPU such as IvyBridge.

If I was in your shoe, I'd phone them up to change the order to a 2500K system if it is still possible, but if you can't, the i7 960 would still last you a good 3-4 years at least.
 
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Well yeah, 3-4 years is fine with me. That's how long i've had my old system for and even then it was mid range at best when i bought it so with decent components in this latest build i should be fine for what i use it for (gaming, photo editing, films) for a good few years.
 
Price has gone up. I did it yesterday with the 6870 and 8Gb of ram and it came up at £789. Today it's £817.

The extra £15 i was referring to was the price for the extra ram.
 
Ok, so i'm now on the said system and all is well.

Thing is though the overclock doesn't seem to have been applied. It's running at 3.2GHZ when it should be 3.4?

Never had an intel PC before, how would i apply the overclock?
 
Do you know what board is in it? In the bios there should be a tab (labelled tools on Asus boards not sure on others) that should have a overclock profile saved to it. If present select the profile and load it. If it's not there then they must have forgot, to be honest it's such a tiny overclock you would probably not even notice the difference. If you look for socket 1366 overclocking threads on here (there was a huge i7 920 one) you should get enough info to get a far superior overclock.
 
Ok i'll check it out. Is there much range then to overclock the my CPU?

As i said never had an intel chip before so no idea how far i can (safely) push this one..
 
Most of the 920's hit 4Ghz easily enough. I have had no experience of 1366 boards and cpu's though so your best bet would be the 920 thread or someone who still has one. I believe that the basics are the same as mine, clocking via the ratio and bclk plus the usual voltage adjustments, but 1366 cpu's tend to be hotter running and need a tad more voltage.

There is a massive thread over at XS on the Bloomfield i7's here.
 
IMHO you bought the better system. I'd much rather have an i7 on an x58 board than an i5 on the 1155. No such thing as futureproofing.

I guarantee by the time you want ivybridge you'll buy a new motherboard anyway which will have pci-e 3.0, then you'll want a pci-e 3.0 card etc etc etc and so it begins :D it 'might' be 'old tech' but then so will the i5 1155 in a few months/weeks when x79 launches with sb-e.

Enjoy mate, oh and overclocking on the x58 is a doddle. Most of the i7s can overclock without needed any extra voltages. If you want a huge overclock then so long as you have a fairly decent cooler you can do this with minimal volt increases. Your CPU can do 4.4 all day long
 
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IMHO you bought the better system. I'd much rather have an i7 on an x58 board than an i5 on the 1155. No such thing as futureproofing.

I guarantee by the time you want ivybridge you'll buy a new motherboard anyway which will have pci-e 3.0, then you'll want a pci-e 3.0 card etc etc etc and so it begins :D it 'might' be 'old tech' but then so will the i5 1155 in a few months/weeks when x79 launches with sb-e.

Enjoy mate, oh and overclocking on the x58 is a doddle. Most of the i7s can overclock without needed any extra voltages. If you want a huge overclock then so long as you have a fairly decent cooler you can do this with minimal volt increases. Your CPU can do 4.4 all day long
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Cheers for the reply.

Spot on what you said about by the time i want ivybridge i'll buy a new motherboard anyway. This is what i was going to say in reply to the guy earlier in the thread who made the 'old tech' comment.

I'll look into overclocking my CPU if it's as easy as you say.
 
Cheer's for that dig. Current gen3 Z68 boards already have everything that the Ivybridge boards will bring. That was the point i was trying to make. Good luck with your clocking.
 
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