Ordered the new rig.

DSN · 28 Jan 2011 at 01:08

Goods Shipped:
Asus P8P67 DELUXE Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard (Sandybridge)
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail
OcUK GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Corsair Professional Series™ Gold AX850 High Performance 850W Power Supply (CMPSU-850AXUK)
Corsair Graphite 600T Midi Tower Case - Black
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1002FAEX)
Noctua NH-D14 Dual Radiator CPU Cooler (Socket)LGA1366/LGA1156/LGA1155/LGA775/AM2/AM2)
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G)
G.Skill RipJawX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C7 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL7D-4GBXM)
G.Skill RipJawX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C7 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL7D-4GBXM)
TP-Link 5 Port Gigabit Desktop Switch (TL-SG1005D)
TP-Link 5 Port Gigabit Desktop Switch (TL-SG1005D) Boogie Bug AimB.Pad XL Gaming Mouse Surface
MX4 Thermal Compound (3.5g)

the extra RAM is for my 1080p rendering, I will cool it properly

Will be arriving by 10am tomorrow. Will be posting vids.

cmndr_andi · 28 Jan 2011 at 01:19

Hi there,

Usually people post here before they buy the rig - but oh well...

Personally I would have suggested going for a 8GB (2x4GB kit) like this, so you put less strain on the memory controller and have the option of installing more RAM in the future.

Also, I would have suggested going with the P8P67 PRO, it has all the important features of the Deluxe board - but costs £22 less.

The rest looks good. Good luck with the build.

DSN · 28 Jan 2011 at 01:59

Thanks a lot for your feedback. Much appreciated.

From a final output point of view,, I could not agree with you more.
2x 4GB sticks would make less stress / heat for the case.
and I would have saved 20 notes on the board. ( the bois interface alone is worth 20 notes to me. I love it

)

However. And your all going to hate me for this...

They look pretty

The blue of the board matches all the blues on the ram, which in turn will look very nice with tubing for the WC rig going in next month.

I attend private lan's a lot, and we all like having the build look nice. So after some careful weighing up I decided I could spare myself a few looks over brains parts.

Ill also be swapping out all the fans for LED blue as well, which is probably going to loose me a deg or 2.

Its good to know that you picked strait up on the only 2 issues I had with the build. But again. Sexy pc is sexy

cmndr_andi said:
Hi there,

Usually people post here before they buy the rig - but oh well...

Personally I would have suggested going for a 8GB (2x4GB kit) like this, so you put less strain on the memory controller and have the option of installing more RAM in the future.

Also, I would have suggested going with the P8P67 PRO, it has all the important features of the Deluxe board - but costs £22 less.

The rest looks good. Good luck with the build.

cmndr_andi · 28 Jan 2011 at 02:02

Ah, fair enough. Aesthetics is certainly a valid reason to pick a component - especially if you are showing it off.

DSN · 28 Jan 2011 at 02:06

I used to be a very hardcore its just the numbers.

But I sort of got the bug about 2 years ago. From my research the final implications are very minimal, but visually it makes such a world of difference. So im happy with my choice.

the " hardcorians " will disagree, but each to there own

again, thank for the feedback.

I understand the Pro also has less lanes for PCIE, and I will probably be upping this to an SLi configuration next month when i do the watercooling ( depending on how well others get the chips to respond ) I may be wrong on that, as ill admit my research was limited.