Sandy Bridge Rig

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Hey, budget is around £400 and I need cpu, ram, mobo & maybe a new case if I can squeeze one in?

Was looking at getting this so far:

Sandy Bridge i5-2500K - £170 ish?
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz - £105

I was looking at getting a GIGABYTE P67A UD5 but having a quick look on google the lowest price so far is £203?!

Any recomendations on a motherboard? Was going to overclock, but after struggling with an e2180 @ 2.8GHz the 2500K should be fine on stock speeds for me?

Also, any idea when OcUK can start shipping the sandy bridges?

Help please :D
 
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4GB should be fine unless you're editing monstrous files. You're currently running on 2GB of RAM and 4GB is double that- which means roughly triple the free space after the usage of Windows and other memory hoggers.

I can't see 4GB being a problem, but upgrade to 8 if you must.
 
hybrid572 said:
4GB should be fine unless you're editing monstrous files. You're currently running on 2GB of RAM and 4GB is double that- which means roughly triple the free space after the usage of Windows and other memory hoggers.

I can't see 4GB being a problem, but upgrade to 8 if you must.
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Ah typo there, I currently run 4gb just my system back then couldn't read all 4gb :p

Garee said:
Get 2x2GB for dual channel.
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Why would I do this? I heard if you have moer than 2 sticks it makes overlocking tricky. So if i get 1x4GB now, i can then upgrade to 8gb in future if i want to?
 
The overclocking for sandy bridge is done via multiplyer, not by raising the FSB. So the only limitations that having 4 sticks of ram instead of 2 would have would be that the ram its self would be harder to overclock via dividers. Considering that overclocked ram shows little real world performance boost this isn't really a problem. I recommend 2x2gb instead of 1.
 
Hmm, okay. Well I'll either buy 2x2gb or 2x4gb depending on my budget at the time...

What about a mobo?
 
The mobos arn't even out so there arn't any reviews so its too early to specify. We can only look at pictures and guess. Either way from the looks of it the stock intel boards are overclocking just as well as the expensive boards.
 
8igdave said:
The overclocking for sandy bridge is done via multiplyer, not by raising the FSB. So the only limitations that having 4 sticks of ram instead of 2 would have would be that the ram its self would be harder to overclock via dividers. Considering that overclocked ram shows little real world performance boost this isn't really a problem. I recommend 2x2gb instead of 1.
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The only thing you can unlock is the turbo boost. It will always stay at 3.2ghz idle, until you stress the chip
 
More than enough.

sponge999 said:
The only thing you can unlock is the turbo boost. It will always stay at 3.2ghz idle, until you stress the chip
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Im aware of this but there must be ram dividers or we would be running ram at 200mhz instead of 1333mhz etc. I'd like to think intel won't take that control away from us too.
 
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