please run over this upgrade

wessa1 · 21 Nov 2010 at 19:01

hi there,

heres what i,ve put together for a pc.mainly used for downloading .burning.browsing and playing all the cod series including black ops.will be using my existing case (stacker 830) and truepower 850wt psu.)

want to add the following :

Asus Rampage II Extreme Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard [90-MIB6L0-G0EAY00Z

2 x MSI GeForce GTX 470 Twin Frozr II 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card in sli

Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail [BX80601950

Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C9 2000MHz Triple Channel Kit (CMX6GX3M3A2000C9) [CMX6GX3M3A2000C9]

Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3)

that little lot comes in at £967.40 which is just below my 1k limit,will it give a good performance and any potential snags.

will be moving up from q6600 @3 ghz on stock cooler,p7n motherboard :eek:

2 x 8800 gtx in sli and 2 gb corsair mmx pc6400 ddr2

thanks

stulid · 21 Nov 2010 at 19:03

change the motherboard to the sabertooth - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-429-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1692

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2010/11/18/asus-sabertooth-x58-review/1

Cookeh · 21 Nov 2010 at 19:10

If its primarily for gaming sod the i7 and get an i5 - negligible difference in the real world.

Swap the i7+mobo+ram out for:

Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156)
(£123.39) £144.98

MSI P55-GD80 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard
(£93.60) £109.98

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9)
(£56.16) £65.99

hybrid572 · 21 Nov 2010 at 19:24

Cookeh said:
If its primarily for gaming sod the i7 and get an i5 - negligible difference in the real world.

Swap the i7+mobo+ram out for:

Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156)
(£123.39) £144.98

MSI P55-GD80 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard
(£93.60) £109.98

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9)
(£56.16) £65.99

Do this, also use the spare money to swap out the 470s for something more powerful and less power hungry. You could probably get 3 6870s!

Cookeh · 21 Nov 2010 at 19:30

hybrid572 said:
Do this, also use the spare money to swap out the 470s for something more powerful and less power hungry. You could probably get 3 6870s!

2x HD6870's are better than the GTX470's in SLI anyway - 3 would be overkill.

hybrid572 · 21 Nov 2010 at 19:41

Cookeh said:
2x HD6870's are better than the GTX470's in SLI anyway - 3 would be overkill.

Oh yeah, but he's obv got money to burn if he's looking at a 950 and 2 470s.

Cookeh · 21 Nov 2010 at 19:43

hybrid572 said:
Oh yeah, but he's obv got money to burn if he's looking at a 950 and 2 470s.

True.
This way, he could save money and use it to buy new games to play instead

cmndr_andi · 21 Nov 2010 at 19:43

If the toughest thing your system will be doing is playing games then your 3GHz Core 2 Quad shouldn't be slowing things down too much. The bottleneck is clearly your 8800GTX SLI graphics cards. If you did a big graphics card upgrade - GTX 580 perhaps - then you would see a massive performance increase and not have to spend the best part of a grand.

wessa1 · 21 Nov 2010 at 19:50

thanks all,still pondering as to what way to go,can stretch a few quid here and there,so
with that in mind may go with the gtx 580 and see how things go,can always go for the full system later if i want and add the 580 to that.

many thanks for your time and consideration

wessa

hybrid572 · 21 Nov 2010 at 20:12

Don't get a 580- get 2 6870s, or 2 460s and overclock them [overclocked 460 is faster, less power hungry and less hot than a 470 at stock]

pastymuncher · 21 Nov 2010 at 20:39

He can't. He has a 780i chipset board that only does SLI.

wessa1 · 21 Nov 2010 at 20:51

yep p7n diamond,not the best but will suffice for now

cmndr_andi · 21 Nov 2010 at 20:57

You might also want to consider a new CPU cooler - if you are overclocking the Q6600 just using the stock cooler. You may be able to take the overclock a fair bit further.

Also, if you go for a CPU cooler from someone like Thermalright or Prolimatech you will get top-notch cooling and you can pretty much guarantee that you will be able to buy a cheap mounting kit for any future CPU socket when they come out - so you can keep the cooler for many future builds.