Shall i pay £149 or £259 could really use sum help

[TFU] Thegoon84 · 26 Jan 2010 at 08:45

I posted up earlier but had no responce, really need sum help if any1 could spare it.

My build will be i7 do, 6GB GT dom's 1866MHz, 5870. I'm new to overclocking and want to give it ago. I intend to OC the CPU to 4GHz and clock the RAM. I also want to add a water loop in a few weeks time....

So is it worth me getting the :

Gigabyte
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-159-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1283

or payign the extra £100 to get
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-319-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1283

Please note if i go for the gigabyte then it means i can use the spare cash to get a SSD

Marine Iguana · 26 Jan 2010 at 08:51

Gigabyte every time it will be just as good at overclocking as the ASUS and it's not worth the extra if you ask me plus their RMA service is in dire straits which is a shame

, but deffo the Gigabyte.

[TFU] Thegoon84 · 26 Jan 2010 at 09:09

Marine Iguana said:
Gigabyte every time it will be just as good at overclocking as the ASUS and it's not worth the extra if you ask me plus their RMA service is in dire straits which is a shame , but deffo the Gigabyte.

Cheers Marine

SSD world HERE I COME Wooohoo! no more loading times woohooo

HeX · 26 Jan 2010 at 09:13

Also do you really need 1866MHz mem?

Reviews show that there is pretty much no difference in performance with higher rated memory as the bandwidth is already saturated.

See here:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/memory-scaling-i7,review-31600-7.html

So save some money on the memory towards your water cooling.

d_brennen · 26 Jan 2010 at 09:18

Built a couple of i7 machines and 1600mhz seems perfecly matched to air cooled overclocking. IMO any faster is a waste...

JonJ678 · 26 Jan 2010 at 10:12

As above, don't buy that ram. Anything better than 1600 c8 is money wasted. Actually anything better than 1333 c9 is probably a waste. Anand concluded that 1333 cas6 was about as good as it gets for x58. I'm running 1600 c8 ram at 1200 c6.

The gigabyte UD5 would be my choice, comes halfway between the two you've linked in price.