So...you've ordered your Sandy Bridge components. What did you go for?

Well after looking round the net and narrowing it down to 3, I have gone for a new SB 2600k but not from ocuk. OCUK would not budge on the price, so found it cheaper in another online shop. Delivery charges were cheaper to on the others.

Here are the pictures of the prices and what I ordered. No names can be seen apart from ocuk. I blocked it all out.
I was going to go for the 2500k but after reading lots of reviews and tests, the 2600k is far better for video editing and the things i do. The 2500k is better for gaming. 2600k is a waste for gaming, Not much benefit.

I saved around 30 quid. Every little helps. ;)

I ran out of money, so I may try out ocuk and get a graphics card at the right price. Will use the one from my old pc for now.

OCUK the most expensive.



Competitor a the next cheapest.


And the cheapest. The one i ordered.


The next cheapest kept changing the prices, within the space of about 30 mins.
 
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Congratulations on saving £38.03, I look forward to reading your build log this summer ;)

If you'd gone with the OcUK purhcase, you would have got a free game and excellent customer service.
 
Ive ordered 2500k, Asus P8P67 Pro and 8Gb Corsair Vengenance. Also have ordered some of the 2400Mhz Patriot RAM but only Intend on keeping one set.
 
Bit-Tech just did a test on different speed and latency ram for Sandy Bridge which might be handy for anyone reading and not sure what ram to buy.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/memory/2011/01/11/the-best-memory-for-sandy-bridge/12

As far as gaming goes, though, there's very little point in buying anything faster than 1,600MHz memory. Crysis couldn't care less about what memory you use, while Civ 5 ran equally as fast on the 1,600MHz kit at CL9 as the 2,133MHz at CL8. Only with the memory set to 1,333MHz did we see a slowdown, and even then by 1-3fps (around 5 per cent) at most.
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dave_beast said:
Congratulations on saving £38.03, I look forward to reading your build log this summer ;)

If you'd gone with the OcUK purhcase, you would have got a free game and excellent customer service.
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But dave, i didn't want a free game. :)

I don't game on the pc. The game is rubbish anyway. I have the first version of that game, on my xbox 360 and it's crap.

£10 off would have been better.;)
 
Intel Core i5-2500K
Gigabyte P67A-UD4
Corsair Vengeance 8GB PC3-12800C8

Arriving tomorrow, hopefully :D

Roll on sandy bridge.
 
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WOOT just been on the phone to OCUK, after an ugly 20mins wait, so I got:

i5 2500k.
Asus P8P67.
Geil 1600mhz Rams 2x2Gb.
Diamond Thermal Paste.
OCUK Cheapo dvd drive.
 
I've just ordered


Gainward GeForce GTX 470 "Golden Golden Sample GOOD Edition" 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor

MSI P67A-GD65 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge)

XFX Pro 750W Core Edition Power Supply

Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1)

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599)

GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM 1yr Warranty (ST31000518AS)

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1155/ 1156 / 1366)

Arctic Cooling MX-3 Thermal Compound (4g)

Akasa Dual 2.5" SSD/HDD Mounting Kit

Roll on Friday I cant waitto start building this, this is going to be my second GTX470 so going SLI.
 
sick and tired of my awful celeron dual 1.6ghz laptop, so I'm Just waiting for the end of my January A level exams, and for overclockers to get some Micro atx p67 motherboards so I can squash all this into a tiny NZXT Vulcan :D what do you guys reckon to this?




Sub Total : £666.59

No VAT for me, ******* love living in the channel islands :P getting a full, ground up i5 2500k build for £150 under normal UK price sounds pretty sweet to me :D:D
 
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dave_beast said:
Congratulations on saving £38.03, I look forward to reading your build log this summer ;)

If you'd gone with the OcUK purhcase, you would have got a free game and excellent customer service.
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What if you already owned the game :p

And at least one of those sites has brilliant customer service when I used them last :)
 
dan1903 said:
No VAT for me, ******* love living in the channel islands :P getting a full, ground up i5 2500k build for £150 under normal UK price sounds pretty sweet to me :D:D
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a) thats one hell of an upgrade!
b) yeah the no VAT thing is nice. Mine is going through the business as an expense :D
 
Todge said:
a) thats one hell of an upgrade!
b) yeah the no VAT thing is nice. Mine is going through the business as an expense :D
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fiddling your expenses? You should be an MP, sounds like you'd fit right in :P

jokes aside its going to be like greased lightning compared to my laptop. Using it mainly for photoshop/lightroom, but I'm also going to start gaming now that I'll actually have a dedicated card. I've been processing all my 10mb, 10 megapixel RAW files on this old brick... its a nightmare. low res 15" screen and 2gb ram on vista makes photoshop a painful experience. everything is sluggish and the onboard gpu is essentially non existant XD

windows experience score of 3.0... HELL YEAH!
 
hope you are all enjoying your new rig =) i'm currently waiting for a competitor to get back to me about returning my psu and they are a pain in the butt.

i think i will always buy from OcUK from now on

Edit: just showing whats been sitting on my desk for a week now =)
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