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Devlish

Devlish

Devlish

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Hey all, impulse buy to refresh - any thoughts? really hopeless at OC'ing so might as well get it done for me :) Its only a coupkle of items but i just loaded them into my basket and am about to press buy...

Krypton Z68 590i Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.40GHz Overclocked Bundle £240.00
Options applied to the above product:
Corsair Vengeance Blue Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9B) £39.95
Options applied to the above product:
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard REV 1 £80.40
Club3D HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (CGAX-69548A) £169.99
OCZ ZS Series 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £64.99

Total : £595.33
 
 
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Sleepless said:
Hey all, impulse buy to refresh - any thoughts? really hopeless at OC'ing so might as well get it done for me :) Its only a coupkle of items but i just loaded them into my basket and am about to press buy...

Krypton Z68 590i Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.40GHz Overclocked Bundle £240.00
Options applied to the above product:
Corsair Vengeance Blue Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9B) £39.95
Options applied to the above product:
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard REV 1 £80.40
Club3D HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (CGAX-69548A) £169.99
OCZ ZS Series 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £64.99

Total : £595.33
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Looks fine. That 2GB 6950 is a good price too on pre-order. Remember overclocking with SB is very simple, just a matter of upping the mulitiplier pretty much.

May I ask what you're upgrading from?
 
 
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Dammit these are all good points and ive put my credit card away! I have 2 x SATA and 2 X SSD drives. Im upgrading from a 4870 with an E6850 so its pretty ancient tech. I really am go**amn hopeless at overclocking, and would pay the 40 quid for someone else to do it, but now Im eyeing stulids post with interest. that looks fairly idiot proof! Case is an Antec 300.

cheers for replies all.
 
Sleepless said:
Dammit these are all good points and ive put my credit card away! I have 2 x SATA and 2 X SSD drives. Im upgrading from a 4870 with an E6850 so its pretty ancient tech. I really am go**amn hopeless at overclocking, and would pay the 40 quid for someone else to do it, but now Im eyeing stulids post with interest. that looks fairly idiot proof! Case is an Antec 300.

cheers for replies all.
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Its really not difficult at all and you've saved £50.
 
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Sleepless said:
Dammit these are all good points and ive put my credit card away! I have 2 x SATA and 2 X SSD drives. Im upgrading from a 4870 with an E6850 so its pretty ancient tech. I really am go**amn hopeless at overclocking, and would pay the 40 quid for someone else to do it, but now Im eyeing stulids post with interest. that looks fairly idiot proof! Case is an Antec 300.

cheers for replies all.
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Stulids spec is very good and you should give some serious thought to doing the OC yourself......any probs we are here to help!

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £194.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68X-UD3P Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £90.00
1 x XFX 650W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £72.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9) £39.95
1 x Corsair A50 High-Performance CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £21.98
Total : £589.90 (includes shipping : FREE).



That's still cheaper than your original price (just). You have to OC yourself but the mobo supports SLI/xfire properly and the PSU is man enough to run two GPUs. Ideally you want to be adding the 2nd GPU much later when they are cheaper (2nd hand even) to maximise your bang for buck. If you aren't interested in dual carding then just refer back to stulids excellent spec :)

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/549?vs=510

The 7850 is better than the 6950. Runs cooler and uses less juice and most reviews state it better bang for buck than the 7870. That price on the CLUB3D 6950 is good though.....you really do want 2GB of VRAM on your GPU.
 
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stulid said:
As long as you know thats theres no Lucid+Quicksync support with that board;) or a onboard GFX solution to fall back on if you have a GFX card problem.
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LOL I clearly need to spend some more time researching. If i'm back to the 7850/7870 route i'm going to give all the details a good going over over the weekend. Thanks for all the advice :)
 
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LOL I clearly need to spend some more time researching. If i'm back to the 7850/7870 route i'm going to give all the details a good going over over the weekend. Thanks for all the advice :)
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £99.98
Total : £99.98 (includes shipping : FREE).



An error on my part....well spotted by stulid (i've caught him out before too lol). He should know i meant this mobo, lil surprised he didnt give you an alternative.....but thanks for pointing out my mistake bud (tired eyes is the excuse btw).

Lucid virtu will switch between the IGP and the dedicated GPU as needed, quick sync helps with video encoding. That is providing you have software that supports it. Your GPU can also be used by software but quicksync is actually better. Would be nice to have it but not a necessity seeing as my mistake was actually cheaper without it.
 
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