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

 

[fowler002]

yes the 4.4gh is overclocked speed, is that a ocuk overclocked bundle?
I'd suggest getting seperate and overclocking yourself.

whats your budget? as yiou may benfit from the i2600k/i2700k

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI ATI Radeon HD 6970 2048MB Twin Frozr III GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with Dirt 3 & Deus Ex PC Games** £267.95
1 x Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £263.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £29.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
Total : £599.32 (includes shipping : £9.50).



if your budget can't stretch to the i2600k/i2700k then get the i2500k

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-368-IN

saves you £94, this is for the oem version(i.e. 1yr warranty no stock cpu cooler) the retail(3yrs warranty, stock intel cpu cooler) i2500k is £185 which makes the saving £77

whats your current case? can it support a 310mm long graphics card? the graphics card speced is 310mm so you need a case that can fit it.

 

[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