Sandybridge upgrade help please :)

DooMeR

DooMeR

DooMeR

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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.
 
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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
 
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.
 
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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.
 
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