Quick BF3 upgrade that takes advantage of 'This Week Only'

CSMonkeh · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:04

OK current spec is in my sig.
Just noticed a few things on TWO that looks very appealing with BF3 out and MW3 very soon I'd thought i'll take advantage. Just want want a 2nd opinion really:

Asus Maximus IV Extreme Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** £250.00
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8) £59.99

Be using current graphics, cooler etc just wanna bring things bit more up-to-date. AM thinking of water-cooling but kits are still on pre-order (one I want anyway) ditto SSD.

Many thanks

CSMonkeh · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:13

D'oh!! Wrong memory.
Was looking at this:
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9) £71.99

edit: 100 posts!!

LukasBB · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:24

You will not notice a difference using 1866MHz RAM over 1600MHz.

CSMonkeh · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:26

LukasBB said:
You will not notice a difference using 1866MHz RAM over 1600MHz.

That's exactly why I made this thread. Thanks

lee20010 · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:29

Hello fellow berkshire person

Whats the budget you have.

CSMonkeh · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:32

lee20010 said:
Hello fellow berkshire person

Whats the budget you have.

£500 max I'd say. Like I said its taking advantage of good stuff whilst its cheaper - £50 off a Maximus IV is worth taking a look at!

PS I work in Newbury! Is it really crazy with Parkway opening today?

Shadz · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:37

If you are going to get some new memory I would get some with a low profile cooler on
them, as if you decide to put another cooler on the CPU then you will have problems
fitting it in with that memory.

I would get this, same speed and cheaper and brilliant memory: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-290-CS

lee20010 · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:42

CSMonkeh said:
£500 max I'd say. Like I said its taking advantage of good stuff whilst its cheaper - £50 off a Maximus IV is worth taking a look at!

PS I work in Newbury! Is it really crazy with Parkway opening today?

Yeah Parkway went crazy I've heard, I work 5mins from there, people have said they launched loads of confetti and with the rain its made places unwalkable lol.

Right £500. Is this for the tower? including windows or not?

mp260767 · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:44

mobo wise i'd go for the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 over the asus, or if you want to spend that sort of money on a mobo go for the Gigabyte G1 Sniper 2.

CSMonkeh · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:47

Shadz said:
If you are going to get some new memory I would get some with a low profile cooler on
them, as if you decide to put another cooler on the CPU then you will have problems
fitting it in with that memory.

I would get this, same speed and cheaper and brilliant memory: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-290-CS

Currently running 4GB of that stuff, nice one!!

lee20010 said:
Yeah Parkway went crazy I've heard, I work 5mins from there, people have said they launched loads of confetti and with the rain its made places unwalkable lol.

Right £500. Is this for the tower? including windows or not?

lol I work (but not today) directly opposite Parkway on Northbrook Street! Gonna go check it out in a bit.

£500 is for mobo, memory and processor. Think i'm happy now with my basket (updated with the XMS3) and i think ill order now

lee20010 · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:48

I came up with

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
(£141.66) £169.99
(£141.66)
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £119.99
(£99.99) £119.99
(£99.99)
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £83.99
(£69.99) £83.99
(£69.99)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £42.98
(£35.82) £42.98
(£35.82)
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
(£21.66) £25.99
(£21.66)
Sub Total : £369.12
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £75.72
Total : £454.34

fowler002 · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:50

mp260767 said:
mobo wise i'd go for the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 over the asus

with the money saved get a ssd(crucial m4 seems to be popular).

CSMonkeh · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:54

lee20010 said:
I came up with

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
(£141.66) £169.99
(£141.66)
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £119.99
(£99.99) £119.99
(£99.99)
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £83.99
(£69.99) £83.99
(£69.99)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £42.98
(£35.82) £42.98
(£35.82)
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
(£21.66) £25.99
(£21.66)
Sub Total : £369.12
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £75.72
Total : £454.34

Nice!! Although i'll be re-using current CPU cooler (Akasa Venom with push/pull). Mobo looks nice but only 1 x PCI-E x16. Preferably want 2 for X-fire in future, or won't it make any difference?

fowler002 · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:58

CSMonkeh said:
Nice!! Although i'll be re-using current CPU cooler (Akasa Venom with push/pull). Mobo looks nice but only 1 x PCI-E x16. Preferably want 2 for X-fire in future, or won't it make any difference?

try looking at the specs of the mb again(make sure you're looking at the correct model), unless you mean it does x8/x8 rather than x16/x16 in xfire/sli in which case it doesn't make too big a difference performance wise.

if you want x16/x16 you want mbs with the nf2000 controller, those mbs are £200+.

guess you didn't like mps' asrock suggestion.

lee20010 · 27 Oct 2011 at 14:00

Get the mobo I have, cost me £100 from here and has 2x SLI/XFIRE slots and its really good

lee20010 · 27 Oct 2011 at 14:01

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
(£141.66) £169.99
(£141.66)
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £151.99
(£126.66) £151.99
(£126.66)
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £109.99
(£91.66) £109.99
(£91.66)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £42.98
(£35.82) £42.98
(£35.82)
Sub Total : £395.80
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £81.06
Total : £486.36

same mobo as me, bigger SSD

lee20010 · 27 Oct 2011 at 14:02

P.s if you wanna pop in pine & oak furniture in newbury come have a chat, as I run the shop. Can go through computer stuff before you order

CSMonkeh · 27 Oct 2011 at 14:03

fowler002 said:
try looking at the specs of the mb again(make sure you're looking at the correct model)
guess you didn't like mps' asrock suggestion.

Yeah, only one slot actually runs @ x16

1 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x16 (PCIEX16)
* For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot.
1 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x8 (PCIEX8)
* The PCIEX8 slot shares bandwidth with the PCIEX16 slot. When the PCIEX8 slot is populated with a PCI Express graphics card, the PCIEX16 slot will operate at up to x8 mode.

lee20010 · 27 Oct 2011 at 14:05

CSMonkeh said:
Yeah, only one slot actually runs @ x16

Theres like a 2% performance boost from having 16x/16x compared to 8x/8x and that 2% might be me being nice. It might be 1%

mp260767 · 27 Oct 2011 at 14:06

running both at x8 would be fine, but up to you, as its your money

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