Rebuild

[Mike1]

Hi all,

I have posted here a little while back and I had not decided what to go for as a rebuild. My current machine is about 4/5 year old still going along OK.
I use my present set up mainly for simulating, model making and some photo editing.
I think its about time I brought my computer up to date so I have looked and read the threads here for ideas and this is what I have come up with;-

ATI HD 6970 2GB graphics card ( my current card is GTS250 )
i5 2500K 3.3 @4.4ghz
Asus P8Z68-v Z68 or Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Z68 MoBo
Kingston or Corsair 8GB memory 1600 DDR3
Corsair A50 CPU cooler
Artic Silver 5 thermal compound

I have a case, 500Gb sata HDD, Optical drive and Corsair Power supply 620watt which I would like to use along with a retail boxed Windows7 64bit OS which I assume I can reuse on this new build.
Speakers and a Samsung SyncMaster2233 monitor I already have.
One other question about the CPU I dont quite understand the 4.4ghz, is this speed gained only by editing the Bios?
The communities advice and help would be appreciated.

Kind regards
Mike

 

[Mike1]

Hi fowler002,

Thank you for the quick reply, I was thinking around the 600 mark as budget.
I don't know where to start with overclocking.
My case is an "icute", I would have to cut out a 25mm slot across the Hdd bays not difficult to do.
Probably better to have a new case for this setup, going over budget, but if its going to last a few years it has to be worth it.

Regards
Mike