Sandybridge upgrade help please :)

DooMeR · 7 Mar 2011 at 14:22

I'm upgrading to sandybridge in a day or two can people be so kind enough to check through my basket and make sure every thing is in order.

Here it is

I only need the cpu ram and mobo and cooler i could maybe increase my budget to the 450-475 pound mark shipping will be free, if theres a nice upgrade to that basket i am missing or if theres anything i am over paying for.

I am thinking the cooler maybe a bit overkill as i uderstand the cpus run quite cool i really like but the idea of the water cooling and i am after a decent overclock of around 4.6ghz. I also need a sli mobo as i plan to use my 260gtx's for now.

VoG · 7 Mar 2011 at 14:24

what basket?

coldfused · 7 Mar 2011 at 14:24

DooMeR said:
I'm upgrading to sandybridge in a day or two can people be so kind enough to check through my basket and make sure every thing is in order.

Um... where's your basket?
Copy and Paste over / Take a Screenshot

DooMeR · 7 Mar 2011 at 14:44

Sorry its there now doh.

Ginger-Menace · 7 Mar 2011 at 14:49

seems in order to me, althought you could save £30 by getting this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-104-GL&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

VoG · 7 Mar 2011 at 14:49

DooMeR said:
Sorry its there now doh.

lol

seems ok to me, if i was going to change anything, ide ditch the ram & switch to GeIL 8GB (2x4GB) click me which would be money well spent, as for the cooler, i5's do indeed run cool, but if you really want to dabble with watercooling, thats as good a place to start as any other.

TheHitMan-1973 · 7 Mar 2011 at 14:54

VoG said:
lol

seems ok to me, if i was going to change anything, ide ditch the ram & switch to GeIL 8GB (2x4GB) click me which would be money well spent, as for the cooler, i5's do indeed run cool, but if you really want to dabble with watercooling, thats as good a place to start as any other.

If he is going to use 8GB he will not be able to clock the i5 2500K , if i am correct , he will loose the clock

VoG · 7 Mar 2011 at 14:56

TheHitMan-1973 said:
If he is going to use 8GB he will not be able to clock the i5 2500K , if i am correct , he will loose the clock

incorrect i'm afraid, i currently use 4x2 gb geil & i run 4.5GHz on a 2500K.

Redmint · 7 Mar 2011 at 14:57

You can easily overclock with 2x4GB RAM.

JasonKnights · 7 Mar 2011 at 15:00

I've got 16gb in my system and it overclocks just as good as any, system looks ok for gaming, 2600ks better all rounder with 8 threads and more cache,

TheHitMan-1973 · 7 Mar 2011 at 15:01

Redmint said:
You can easily overclock with 2x4GB RAM.

Reading someone else post , OC tech said you cannot use 8GB with i5 2500k if clocked

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18249977

Ginger-Menace · 7 Mar 2011 at 15:04

ypou can use 8 gb, oc tech say this as there overclock is optimised for 4 gb, u will need to change some settings for the 8 gb to work at the desired speed

VoG · 7 Mar 2011 at 15:05

TheHitMan-1973 said:
Reading someone else post , OC tech said you cannot use 8GB with i5 2500k if clocked

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18249977

you've completley misunderstood the post you've quoted, that guy bought a PRE overclocked rig from ocuk, if he then adds extra ram to it it will reset his bios loosing the overclock, which will then need to be re-established.

TheHitMan-1973 · 7 Mar 2011 at 15:06

VoG said:
you've completley misunderstood the post you've quoted, that guy bought a PRE overclocked rig from ocuk, if he then adds extra ram to it it will reset his bios loosing the overclock.

i see , sorry VoG

VoG · 7 Mar 2011 at 15:08

TheHitMan-1973 said:
i see , sorry VoG

np matey, no need to apologise, tis an easy mistake to make.

DooMeR · 7 Mar 2011 at 15:27

I am starting to think this will be better i save my self money and i get a i7core.
Would there be any issues in adding another 2 sticks of that ram at a later stage.

I have a few decent air coolers and if they dont fit the mobo can use the stock cooler and not overclock untill i get a better one

Is the i7 much better for gaming over a i5

Ginger-Menace · 7 Mar 2011 at 15:29

that cpu is the non 'K' version and thus will not overclock much, jst get the i52500k unles su use multithredded prog's u wont need it

DooMeR · 7 Mar 2011 at 15:37

Ah wonder wonderd why it was so cheap when it had a 3 year warrenty, and yeah it will be mainly a gaming machine so guess it would be wasted on me.

Question though will the lower timings on the g skill ram make any differance gaming wise compaired with Geil ram.

VoG · 7 Mar 2011 at 16:05

DooMeR said:
Question though will the lower timings on the g skill ram make any differance gaming wise compaired with Geil ram.

nope, you'll only notice the difference in benching ( super pi etc ).

DooMeR · 7 Mar 2011 at 16:28

Thanks for the advice lads i will stick some cheaper ram in and put the money i have saved towards a new gpu

I was tempted by the 8gb of ram but my current system has 8 gb and i found getting my e8600 over 4ghz a nightmare i will do a bit of testing tonight and see how much of that 8gb ram i actually use.