Possible Upgrade Plans... advice needed please

Danger Phoenix · 31 Oct 2011 at 15:35

I don't play that many games, so I am not too fussed about performance. Is there much difference in going from 22" to 24"?

Doomedspeed · 31 Oct 2011 at 15:54

Danger Phoenix said:
I don't play that many games, so I am not too fussed about performance. Is there much difference in going from 22" to 24"?

I think so, in my experience anyway. It may do resolusion wise aswell.

I'd go for 24" as long as it fits within your budget. if it doesn't 22" will be fine.

Im just wondering, if you don't play games a lot, do you need a GTX 570? It is that you only play a select few games? or do you want the graphics card to run different programs?

Danger Phoenix · 31 Oct 2011 at 23:23

I just want that card so it can play the latest games if need be, but I have no real purpose for it.

In terms of hard drives, I have always been worried about losing one of the drives... would a RAID 5 setup be recommended?

Danger Phoenix · 1 Nov 2011 at 22:39

Would something like this be worth it:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-008-CS&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=

Danger Phoenix · 2 Nov 2011 at 17:15

All ordered, apart from the possible RAID card and monitors. I will try the onboard RAID first and then decide whether I want to spend an extra £150 on the parity drive and £250 on the RAID card.

Spent £1500

fowler002 · 2 Nov 2011 at 18:03

if you went for the 2700k oem it would be £25 more unless you ordered it before they increased the price, what was the final spec?

Danger Phoenix · 2 Nov 2011 at 23:55

Well I didn't buy everything from OcUK because prices were significantly cheaper elsewhere, but I did buy some things from here:

Code:

Motherboard 	- Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 DDR3
Processor 	- Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155
HSF 	 	- Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler
Memory 		- 2 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz
Graphics 	- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 SOC WINDFORCE 3X 1280MB
Power Supply	- OCZ ZX Series 1000W '80 Plus Gold' Modular
Hard Disk 	- 1 x SSD (keep existing)
		- 4 x 3TB Western Digital Green
		- 1 x 1TB Western Digital Black
Keyboard/Mouse	- Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution

Danger Phoenix · 8 Nov 2011 at 13:14

The RAM is arrived at home today (that is all I was waiting for) so naturally I am going to leave work early

Danger Phoenix · 12 Nov 2011 at 11:34

Currently overclocked to 4.8GHz and under full load for a good 15 minutes the highest it reaches is 80 degrees. I think I will drop it down to 4.6GHz because 200MHz isn't really going to make a difference to me but it will to the temperatures.

I thought I had turned off all the settings which prevent the CPU from lowering its speed when idle, but it is still doing it

fowler002 · 12 Nov 2011 at 11:38

80oc seems high from the silverarrow, I'll have to leave it to the experts tho.