Overclocked bundle?

mcgivney · 30 May 2011 at 15:14

Ive got a Top maximum of 450 to spend on a new bundle....

Im into gaming with arma2, battlefield, COD etc ive got little knowlage of pc's and there seems to be lots of options for system bundles for my price range, could those with the 'know how' please point out one or two for me.

I have an antec 900 (2) and will be using a 460GTX, soon to be upgrading to a 570/580

thanks in advance.

panyan · 30 May 2011 at 15:18

do you want us to include the 570/580 in the budget or not?

mcgivney · 30 May 2011 at 15:23

No, that will be seperate

sk82jack · 30 May 2011 at 15:35

Just make sure it's a 2500K overclocked bundle and you can't go wrong - but you will get it a lot cheaper if you buy seperately and overclock yourself - or buy seperately 2500k, MSI GD65, cheapest DDR3 1600MHz RAM, Corsair A50 and then you can just use the OC Genie II button and it gives you an instant 4.2GHz overclock.

panyan · 30 May 2011 at 15:36

sk82jack said:
buy seperately 2500k, MSI GD65, cheapest DDR3 1600MHz RAM, Corsair A50 and then you can just use the OC Genie II button and it gives you an instant 4.2GHz overclock.

+1

mcgivney · 30 May 2011 at 16:17

hows this, looks pretty baddass

Intel Core i5-2500 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £157.99
Asus P67 Sabertooth Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard (Sandybridge) £149.99
Corsair Vengeance 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Triple Channel Kit 89.99
Corsair Hydro H60 CPU Cooler with free Akasa Apache Fan (£45.82) £54.98

464.70

sk82jack · 30 May 2011 at 19:50

Get a K version chip to overclock, otherwise get a H67/61 board if your not going to.

Can't use triple channel RAM (that's my fault I should have made it clearer earlier lol), choose a 4GB or 8GB set.

Cooler is very good.

Motherboard is very good but you can get a cheaper one which will still do what you want it to. Any particular reason for the motherboard such as number of SATA ports/etc?

sk82jack · 30 May 2011 at 19:53

Also, what is your PSU!?! Can't believe I forgot to ask

I assume it must be OK to power a 460 but better to be safe than sorry

sk82jack · 30 May 2011 at 20:01

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £173.99

Gigabyte Z68MA-D2H Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £109.99

OCZ Vertex 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX60G) £73.99

Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) £49.99

Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £35.99

Total : £455.35 (includes shipping : £9.50)

Threw an SSD in there just 'cause I could

If you don't want that, just take it out and you've got everything you wanted for only £381.36 inc. shipping

And then if your PSU isn't up to the task, chuck in a decent PSU instead of the SSD.